| 单词 | elucidate |
| 释义 | elucidate (once / 2255 pages) v If you elucidate something, you explain it very clearly. If you don't understand fractions, a visit to the pie shop may elucidate the subject for you. Elucidate is from Late Latin elucidare, from the Latin prefix e- "thoroughly" plus lucidus "clear, bright." This Latin adjective is the source of English lucid, which describes someone who thinks clearly or something that is clear enough to understand. WORD FAMILYelucidate: elucidated, elucidates, elucidating, elucidation, elucidative+/elucidation: elucidations/elucidative: elucidatively/lucid: lucidest, lucidity, lucidly, lucidness/lucidity: elucidate, lucidities USAGE EXAMPLESSher delivers an eloquent performance in which words are caressed, sentences are elucidated, and the art of elocution is grandly paraded. Los Angeles Times(Nov 30, 2016) From Wesley Lowery’s reportage on police shootings to Zadie Smith’s new novel, they elucidate and offer escape from the noisy politics of our times. New York Times(Nov 18, 2016) The night-time city is full of opportunities to probe, examine and elucidate. The Guardian(Nov 18, 2016) 1v make clear and (more) comprehensible Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper clarify, clear up obfuscate make obscure or unclear demystify make less mysterious or remove the mystery from clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten outmake free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrateadd details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing disambiguatestate unambiguously or remove ambiguities from detailprovide details for exposit, expound, set forthstate exemplify, illustrate, instanceclarify by giving an example of particularise, particularize, specialise, specialize, specifybe specific about explain, explicate make plain and comprehensible 2v make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear Syn|Hyper clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out clarify, clear up make clear and (more) comprehensible |
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