elaborates

VERB

make detailed; expand

Synonyms

STRONG

amplify bedeck clarify comment complicate deck decorate develop devise discuss embellish enhance enlarge evolve expatiate explain expound garnish improve interpret ornament particularize polish produce refine specify unfold

WEAK

flesh out work out

Antonyms

STRONG

abridge block compress condense confuse curtail damage decrease deface diminish dirty halt harm hurt lessen lower reduce ruin spoil stop worsen

WEAK

make simple simplify

Example Sentences

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Scanning the room, largely full of teenagers, she elaborates on her last point.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026

Dressed in jeans, a T-shirt and brown suede cowboy boots, Batson elaborates on his idea about genre.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026

In a recent essay at Scientific American, leading psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton elaborates:

From Salon • Dec. 27, 2024

Instead, it thoughtfully elaborates on the stage show, which opened on Broadway in 2003.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2024

The meadow lark, with three hundred notes to work with, arranges these in phrases of three to six notes and elaborates fifty types of song.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas