v. work out in detail; "elaborate a plan"

v. produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product; "The bee elaborates honey"

v. make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or pattern"

v. add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing; "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation"

adj. marked by complexity and richness of detail; "an elaborate lace pattern"

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"

v. become larger or bigger

v. extend in one or more directions; "The dough expands"

v. increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity; "The music swelled to a crescendo"

v. expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"

v. exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated"

v. make large; "blow up an image"

v. lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer; "We prolonged our stay"; "She extended her visit by another day"; "The meeting was drawn out until midnight"

v. enlarge or increase; "The recent speech of the president augmented tensions in the Near East"

v. subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition; "process cheese"; "process hair"; "treat the water so it can be drunk"; "treat the lawn with chemicals" ; "treat an oil spill"

v. express or state clearly

v. define; "The committee explained their plan for fund-raising to the Dean"

v. provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases; "He annotated on what his teacher had written"

v. state emphatically and authoritatively; "He declared that he needed more money to carry out the task he was charged with"

v. put before; "I submit to you that the accused is guilty"

v. affirm or avow formally or solemnly; "The suspect protested his innocence"

v. determine the nature of; "What defines a good wine?"

v. give an interpretation or explanation to

v. deliver a lecture or talk; "She will talk at Rutgers next week"; "Did you ever lecture at Harvard?"

v. use language; "the baby talks already"; "the prisoner won't speak"; "they speak a strange dialect"

v. express in words; "He said that he wanted to marry her"; "tell me what is bothering you"; "state your opinion"; "state your name"

v. to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before God I swear I am innocent"

v. lay claim to; as of an idea; "She took credit for the whole idea"

v. assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing; "He claimed that he killed the burglar"

v. represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface; "She drew an elephant"; "Draw me a horse"

v. accept as true; take to be true; "I believed his report"; "We didn't believe his stories from the War"; "She believes in spirits"

v. provide commentary for a film, for example

v. narrate or give a detailed account of; "Tell what happened"; "The father told a story to his child"

v. confess one's faith in, or allegiance to; "The terrorists professed allegiance to the Muslim faith"; "he professes to be a Communist"

v. pronounce judgment on; "They labeled him unfit to work here"

v. give an account of; "The witness related the events"

v. have or establish a relationship to; "She relates well to her peers"

v. give information

v. make known to the authorities; "One student reported the other to the principal"

adj. difficult to analyze or understand; "a complicated problem"; "complicated Middle East politics"

adj. not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "a difficult child"; "found himself in a difficult situation"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?"

adj. complicated in structure; consisting of interconnected parts; "a complex set of variations based on a simple folk melody"; "a complex mass of diverse laws and customs"

adj. excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "speech embellished with classical quotations"; "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away"

adj. rich in decorative detail

adj. (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display

adj. of a display that is tawdry or vulgar

v. become larger in size or volume or quantity; "his business expanded rapidly"

adj. elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech"

adj. having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation; "the building...frantically baroque"-William Dean Howells

adj. overcrowded or cluttered with detail; "a busy painting"; "a fussy design"

adj. having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement; "a crenelated molding"

adj. in fancy clothing

adj. having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware; "a crackle glaze"

adj. (of metals) decorated or inlaid with a wavy pattern of different (especially precious) metals; "a damascened sword"

adj. having a woven pattern; "damask table linens"

adj. having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement; "a crenelated molding"

adj. made of or resembling lace; "a lacy gown"; "a lacy leaf"

adj. gathered for protruding fullness; "puff sleeves"

adj. having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation; "an exquisite gilded rococo mirror"

adj. decorated with wormlike tracery or markings; "vermicular (or vermiculated) stonework"

adj. marked by care and effort; "made a studious attempt to fix the television set"

adj. "careful of her feelings"; "extremely solicitous in matters of behavior"

adj. exercising or taking care great enough to bring assurance; "be certain to disconnect the iron when you are through"; "be sure to lock the doors"

adj. rigorously attentive; strict and thorough; "close supervision"; "paid close attention"; "a close study"; "kept a close watch on expenditures"

adj. characterized by extreme care and great effort; "conscientious application to the work at hand"; "painstaking research"; "scrupulous attention to details"

adj. characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination; "a minute inspection of the grounds"; "a narrow scrutiny"; "an exact and minute report"

adj. excessively or unduly careful

adj. painstakingly careful and accurate; "our accountant is thorough"; "thorough research"

v. make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extent; "We had to simplify the instructions"; "this move will simplify our lives"

v. give a summary (of); "he summed up his results"; "I will now summarize"

adj. not elaborate or elaborated; simple; "plain food"; "stuck to the plain facts"; "a plain blue suit"; "a plain rectangular brick building"

adj. having few parts; not complex or complicated or involved; "a simple problem"; "simple mechanisms"; "a simple design"; "a simple substance"

adj. severely simple; "a stark interior"