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English Dictionary: elaborated by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
elaborated
adj
  1. 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"
    Synonym(s): detailed, elaborate, elaborated
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.
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