elucidate

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[edit] Etymology

From Late Latin elucidare (perfect stem elucidat-).

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Particularly: “please state more clearly”

[edit] Pronunciation

(UK) IPA: /əˈluː.sɪ.deɪt/, SAMPA: /@"lu:.sI.deIt/

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[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to elucidate

Third person singular
elucidates

Simple past
elucidated

Past participle
elucidated

Present participle
elucidating

to elucidate (third-person singular simple present elucidates, present participle elucidating, simple past and past participle elucidated)

To make clear or obvious; to clarify.
- 1998, Gillian Catriona Ramchand, Deconstructing the Lexicon, in Miriam Butt and Wilhelm Geuder, eds. “The Projection of Arguments”
  
  … and in this section I summarise some problematic data which support the view that the traditional thematic role labels are simply inadequate to deal with the phenomena they were designed to elucidate.
To disambiguate.