All 7 Uses

elaborate
in
Severance
(Edited)

I didn't elaborate that they were both deceased, and that the family coffers or whatever would last me just long enough—maybe, say, for the next ten, fifteen years—for me to be comfortable with not working,
p. 50.3 *

elaborate = explain in more detail
My room at the Grand Shenzhen Moon Palace Hotel was pleasant and nondescript, except for an intricate navy bedspread, embroidered with phoenixes in elaborate plumage rising to the moon.
p. 79.4

elaborate = fancy and full of detail
What surprised me in Hong Kong, however, was how many iterations of the same thing were available. ... Nowhere else was there such an elaborate gradient between the real and the fake.
p. 100.3 *

elaborate = detailed or complex
On top shelves were dollhouse-sized cardboard constructions of homes, printed with elaborate, intricate details and furnished with paper furniture.
p. 104.5

elaborate = complex with many details
There was an elaborate ceremony being held at Ground Zero, with a recitation of the names of the dead.
p. 212.4

elaborate = carefully arranged and detailed
The table is decorated a bit more elaborately, with a boho-chic floral tablecloth and crochet place mats pilfered from Anthropologic, which means Genevieve decorated.
p. 229.4

elaborately = ornately (with intricate or complex detail)
Up ahead, there's a massive littered river, planked by an elaborate, wrought-iron red bridge.
p. 291.4

elaborate = decorative and full of intricate design

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)