[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

elaborate \elab"orate\, v. t. imp.  p. p. elaborated; p.
   pr.  vb. n. elaborating.
   1. to produce with labor
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            they in full joy elaborate a sigh,    --young.
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   2. to perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine with
      labor and study, or by successive operations; as, to
      elaborate a painting or a literary work.
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            the sap is . . . still more elaborated and exalted
            as it circulates through the vessels of the plant.
                                                  --arbuthnot.
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