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1 —1 use as in:
elaborate on your plan
Definition
add details or explain in detail
- "God created a world of work and rewards," he elaborated, "on a big balanced scale."Book 1 — Genesis (40% in)
There are no more uses of "elaborate" flagged with this meaning in The Poisonwood Bible.
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- Mother's fabrication is so elaborate I can hardly describe it.Book 5 — Exodus (88% in)
- I turned the page on our lesson in business correspondence, and began to work on an elaborate pencil drawing of Noah's ark.Book 3 — Judges (16% in)
- It was so pretty, so elaborately basket-woven among hen and egg, we did not at first understand what we saw.Book 4 — Bel and the Serpent (77% in)
- Then I stared for a while at a traffic light, which was suspended elaborately on wires above the intersection.Book 5 — Exodus (23% in)
There are no more uses of "elaborate" in The Poisonwood Bible.
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