All 10 Uses of

elaborate
in
The Sunlight Dialogues

The rest of the epic elaborates it, describing the kinds of immortality Gilgamesh tries for and misses—eternal youth, lasting fame, and so on.†
Chpt 15 *

elaborates = adds details or explains in detail

For all his elaborate show of indifference, for all his clowning, his play-acting, his sometimes arrogant, sometimes mysteriously gentle defiance and mocking of both prisoners and guards, he sweated prodigiously, throughout his stay, from what must have been nervousness.†
Chpt 2

Will's voice was Hodge's (Will Sr's) own, but the tone and the elaborate verbiage came from Will's mother, the former Mrs. Hodge Sr, whom Hodge had spent most of his adult lifetime pitying, hating, and—for reasons unfathomable to him—fearing.†
Chpt 3

On the minister's tiered dais stood three high-backed chairs, old and dignified, and hanging above the chairs an elaborately ornamented lamp, not burning tonight although it was a symbol, Clumly had somewhere heard, of some kind of everlasting fire.†
Chpt 7 *

While the Hebrews moved from place to place with their sheep, turning green meadows into enormous deserts, indifferent as any intellectual to earth, the Mesopotamian peoples studied it, toyed with it, experimented with it as elaborately as they experimented with, for instance, sex.†
Chpt 7

On the pulpit, where the Bible should be, he found a box elaborately wrapped in a small iron chain.†
Chpt 7

He came to a peculiar, elaborately wrought concrete portal—columns on each side, statuary (armless figures in attitudes of greed, agony, debauched pleasure: a naked leering fat man, at his feet young girls, also naked, looking up with expressions of mingled delight and disgust—in all this nothing shocking, Clumly felt, nothing out of the ordinary), around the bases of the statues bits of broken glass, a hubcap, a bleeding hand.†
Chpt 9

Some were far back from the road, indifferent to winter, set on the crowns of hills above driveways that would be impassable after the first of December; some were log cabins with elaborate extensions—new sections of tarpaper or asbestos shingles; one was no bigger than a large doghouse, a scale model of a real house but in fact a toy, like the houses set up on the Blind School lawns at Christmas—but there were people inside and a man sitting on a rocker on the porch, his bent head scraping the porch ceiling as he rocked.†
Chpt 13

A technique made up of careful segmentation, with elaborate echoing, repeating and counterpointing, with texture enriched still more by rare and artificial words.†
Chpt 15

A kind of poetry naturally suited to elaborate description and oration and hymnic address, symbolic dreams, and armings.†
Chpt 15

Definitions:

(1) (elaborate as in: elaborate on your plan)
add details or explain in detail
(2) (elaborate as in: an elaborate design)
having details and complexity -- sometimes fancy or ornate
Depending upon it's context, this sense of elaborate can additionally imply that details make something either:
- more special than others of its kind in a good way
or:
- more complicated than necessary in a bad way
(3) (elaborate as in: an elaborate wink)
to exaggerate an action

At times, this sense of elaborate can further imply that an action was exaggerated by prolonging it (performing it more slowly than normal).
(4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus