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elucidate
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synonyms: explicate, unfold, unbolt, enucleate ???
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Definition:to make clear; explain;
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They compose an ardent epistle, a declaration in fact, and they carry the letter upstairs themselves, so as to elucidate whatever might appear not perfectly intelligible in the letter.
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The right whale will be elsewhere treated of at some length, with reference to elucidating the sperm whale.
Herman Melville. Moby Dick
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All human knowledge is more or less clear. By what strange fatality have we never been able to elucidate the science of God? The most civilized nations, and among them the most profound thinkers, are in this respect no more enlightened than the most savage tribes and ignorant peasants;
Baron D'Holbach. Good Sense (1772)
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"Did you know when you were a girl, growing up, that one day you'd be a maid?"
"Yes ma'am. Yes, I did."
I smile, wait for her to elucidate. There is nothing.
Kathryn Stockett. The Help, p.169 (2009)
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the very point which appears to complicate a case is, when duly considered and scientifically handled, the one which is most likely to elucidate it.
Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
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