Usually means: Make clear, explain thoroughly.
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  1. elucidate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. elucidate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. elucidate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. elucidate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. elucidate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Elucidate, elucidate: Wordnik
  7. elucidate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. elucidate: Wiktionary
  9. elucidate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. elucidate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. elucidate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Elucidate, elucidate: Dictionary.com
  13. elucidate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. elucidate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Elucidate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Elucidate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. elucidate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. elucidate: Rhymezone
  19. elucidate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. elucidate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. elucidate: Free Dictionary
  22. elucidate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. elucidate: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. elucidate: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. elucidate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. elucidate: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. elucidate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To make (something) lucid (“bright, luminous; also, clear, transparent”).
▸ verb:  (figurative) To make (something) clear and understandable; to clarify, to illuminate, to shed light on.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Clear, understandable.

Similar:
sort out, straighten out, clear up, clarify, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, clear, crystallize, illucidate, more...

Opposite:
confuse, befuddle, muddle, obscure

Types:
illuminate, clarify, illustrate, explain, exemplify, more...

Phrases:
opposite of elucidate, more...

Colors:
    white,     silver,     sky blue,     ivory,     mint green,     lavender,     peach,     beige,     light gold,     cream


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Similar:
sort out, straighten out, clear up, clarify, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, clear, crystallize, illucidate, more...

Opposite:
confuse, befuddle, muddle, obscure

Types:
illuminate, clarify, illustrate, explain, exemplify, more...

Phrases:
opposite of elucidate, more...

Colors:
    white,     silver,     sky blue,     ivory,     mint green,     lavender,     peach,     beige,     light gold,     cream



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