Elaborate(a.) Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research.
Elaborate(v. t.) To produce with labor
Elaborate(v. t.) 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.
Elaborated(imp. & p. p.) of Elaborate
Elaborating(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Elaborate
Elaboration(n.) The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
Elaboration(n.) The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle, or sap, or tissues.
Elaborative(a.) Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details.
Elaborator(n.) One who, or that which, elaborates.
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