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elaborated
Variant of elaborate
adjective
- worked out carefully; developed in great detail
- highly wrought or ornamented; complicated
- painstaking
transitive verb elaborated, elaborating
- to produce by effort
- to work out carefully; develop in great detail
- to change (food or substances in the body) into compounds that can be assimilated, excreted, etc.
intransitive verb
to state something in detail or add more details: usually with on or upon
Related Forms:
- elaborately adverb
- elaborateness noun
- elaboration noun
- elaborative adjective
- elaborator noun
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