2 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Elaborate \E*lab"o*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Elaborated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Elaborating}.] 1. To produce with labor [1913 Webster] They in full joy elaborate a sigh, --Young. [1913 Webster] 2. To perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine with labor and study, or by successive operations; as, to elaborate a painting or a literary work. [1913 Webster] The sap is . . . still more elaborated and exalted as it circulates through the vessels of the plant. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: elaborated adj : developed or executed with care and in minute detail; "a detailed plan"; "the elaborate register of the inhabitants prevented tax evasion"- John Buchan; "the carefully elaborated theme" [syn: {detailed}, {elaborate}]
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