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Elucidate

Elucidate Meaning & Definition
Elucidate Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Elucidate?

[v] make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear; "Could you clarify these remarks?"; "Clear up the question of who is at fault"
[v] make clear and (more) comprehensible; "clarify the mystery surrounding her death"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Elucidate: clarify | clear | clear up | clear up | crystalise | crystalize | crystallise | crystallize | enlighten | illuminate | shed light on | sort out | straighten out

Related Terms | Find terms related to Elucidate: account for | allegorize | annotate | clarify | clear | clear up | crack | decipher | demonstrate | demythologize | enlighten | euhemerize | exemplify | explain | explain away | explicate | exposit | expound | get across | get over | give reason for | give the meaning | illuminate | illustrate | make clear | make it clear | make plain | popularize | prove | put across | put over | rationalize | shed light upon | show | show how | show the way | simplify | solve | spell out | throw light upon | unfold | unlock | unravel | vulgarize

See Also | clarify | clear | crystalise | crystalize | crystallise | crystallize | demystify | dilate | disambiguate | elaborate | elucidate | elucidate | enlarge | enlighten | expand | expatiate | explain | explicate | exposit | expound | flesh out | illuminate | lucubrate | shed light on | sort out | straighten out

Elucidate In Webster's Dictionary

\E*lu"ci*date\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Elucidated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Elucidating}.] [LL. elucidatus, p. p. of elucidare; e + lucidus full of light, clear. See {Lucid}.] To make clear or manifest; to render more intelligible; to illustrate; as, an example will elucidate the subject.

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