elucidate
pronunciation
How to pronounce elucidate in British English:
UK [iˈluːsɪdeɪt]
How to pronounce elucidate in American English:
US [iˈluːsɪdeɪt]
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- Verb:
- make clear and (more) comprehensible
- make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear
Word Origin
- elucidate (v.)
- 1560s, perhaps via Middle French élucider (15c.) or directly from Late Latin elucidatus, past participle of elucidare "make light or clear," from assimilated form of ex- "out, away" (see ex-) + lucidus "clear" (see lucid). Related: Elucidated; elucidates; elucidating.
Example
- 1. Dr hudson 's measurement is twice as precise as the previous efforts to elucidate the shape of the electron .
- 2. I would like to offer a different viewpoint , with a few thoughts of my own that may help elucidate why you should stay in it .
- 3. Whether obama , when he does eventually engage , can successfully elucidate an israel-palestine policy that is substantively different from that of bush-cheney is wholly uncertain at present .
- 4. But even as he spares no pains to elucidate the harm caused by both national socialism and stalinism , he understates the extent to which their history was a fateful encounter .
- 5. Although the study did not elucidate exactly how sleep affects growth - the authors theorized that changes in hormonal signals during sleep may boost the secretion of growth hormones - it adds to the evidence that sleep carries important biological functions .