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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Elaborate \E*lab"o*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Elaborated}; p. pr & vb n. {Elaborating}.] 1. To produce with labor They in full joy elaborate a sigh, --Young. 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 The sap is . . . still more elaborated and exalted as it circulates through the vessels of the plant. --Arbuthnot. From WordNet r 1.6 [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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