The Collaborative International Dictionary
Elaborate \E*lab"o*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Elaborated; p. pr. & vb. n. Elaborating.]
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To produce with labor
They in full joy elaborate a sigh,
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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.
The sap is . . . still more elaborated and exalted as it circulates through the vessels of the plant.
--Arbuthnot.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of elaborate English)
Usage examples of "elaborating".
Most of our teachers would say: We have devoted several centuries to inventing and elaborating the Glass Bead Game as a universal language and method for expressing all intellectual concepts and all artistic values and reducing them to a common denominator.
We are continually elaborating newer, more intricate forms of communication.
Carialle said, without elaborating, but she made a comprehensive recording of the pathetic scatter of small bodies in protective suits near the landing pad.
What he wasn't saying was vividly and pictorially flashing across his mind, elaborating with every shade of the emotional spectrum a dry recital of fact.
There was surprise in his voice, suspicion that he didn't get round to elaborating but, above all, pleasure.
No point in my elaborating: Will's ready to talk your head off about it if he manages to corner you.
The players, mutually elaborating these processes, threw these abstract formulas at one another, displaying the sequences and possibilities of their science.
One-celled organisms evolved into multicellular colonies, elaborating their various parts into specialized organ systems.
Kochi kept on trying to explain things to Harry, elaborating on what she knew of the berserker plan.