Elucidate

Definitions: Elucidate

Elucidate

Verb

1. Shed light on.

2. Make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear: "Could you clarify these remarks?"; "Clear up the question of who is at fault".

Date "elucidate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Note: Elucidate \E*lu"ci*date\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Elucidated; present participle verb or noun Elucidating.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Elucidate

Synonyms: clarify (v), clear (v), clear up (v), crystalise (v), crystalize (v), crystallise (v), crystallize (v), enlighten (v), illuminate (v), shed light on (v), sort out (v), straighten out (v). (additional references)

Antonyms: confuse (v), obfuscate (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Conformity	Exemplify, illustrate, cite, quote, quote precedent, quote authority, appeal to authority, put a case; produce an instance; Noun: elucidate, explain.
Discovery	Solve, resolve, elucidate; unriddle, unravel, unlock, crack, crack open; pick up, open the lock; find a clue, find clew a to, find the key to the riddle; interpret; disclose.
Intelligibility	Render intelligible; Adjective: popularize, simplify, clear up; elucidate; (explain).
Interpretation	Account for; find the cause, tell the cause; of; throw light upon, shed light upon, shed new light upon, shed fresh light upon; clear up, clarify, elucidate.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Elucidate

English words defined with "elucidate": Dilucidate ♦ Elucidated, Elucidating, Elucidatory ♦ To explain away. (references)

Specialty definitions using "elucidate": Homer's Critics. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Approaches to Elucidate Mechanisms in Teratogenesis (Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology Series) (reference) Essays designed to elucidate the science of political economy (reference) The consecration of genius; an essay to elucidate the distinctive significance and quality of Christian art and literature by analysis and comparison of certain masterpieces (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		More basic research to elucidate the role of platelets in hemostasis is needed. (references)
		Additional studies such as EKGs may be needed to elucidate other adverse effects. (references)
		The results of such studies should elucidate basic mechanisms of the disorders themselves. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Elucidate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 93.48% of the time. "Elucidate" is used about 138 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	93.48%	129	28,132
Lexical Verb (base form)	6.52%	9	117,287
Total	100.00%	138	N/A

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Language		Translations for "elucidate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		sqaroj (clarify, dissolve, enlighten, enucleate, explain, gloss, illuminate, illustrate, sharpen, straighten, straighten out), shpjegoj (account for, clarify, construe, define, explain, expound, interpret, justify, make understand, straighten, straighten out, take to pieces, tell, unriddle). (various references)

Arabic		‏فسر (account for, clarify, clear, clear up, construe, explain, explicate, expound, illustrate, interpret, make clear), ‏وضح (accentuate, clarify, clear up, define, explain, illuminate, illustrate, light, lighten, puzzle out, ravel out, represent, spell, state), ‏شرح (account for, anatomize, be explained, caption, commentary, cut into slices, demonstrate, demonstration, dissect, elucidation, explain, explanation, explication, exposition, expound, puzzle out, represent, slice, sort out), ‏بين (amidst, among, articulate, between, bring to light, broad, distinct, evident, explicit, express, indicate, inter alia, midst, obvious, ostensible, overt, seeming, self evident, set forth, show, through, unequivocal). (various references)

Bulgarian		разяснявам (clarify, explicate, expound, interpret, set forth, unscramble, ventilate), хвърлям светлина върху (illuminate), изяснявам (clarify, clear, crystallize, enucleate, make understand, ravel, sound out, talk out, translate, unkennel, unscramble). (various references)

Chinese		阐明 (Clarification, Elucidated, Elucidating, Expound, Expounded, Expounding). (various references)

Czech		vysvìtlit (account for, air, clear up, define, explain, explicate, expound, interpret, resolve, set light to), vyložit (articulate, deposit, discharge, display, explain, expound, hold up, interpret, lay out, put out, unfold, unload), ozřejmit, osvìtlit (clarify, illuminate, light, light up), objasnit (account for, clarify, clear up, unravel). (various references)

Farsi		توضیح دادن (Clarify, Clear, Explain, Illustrate, State), روشن کردن (Alight, Brighten, Clarify, Daylight, Enlighten, Explain, Ignite, Illuminate, Lighten, Refresh, Relume), روشن (Alight, Alive, Bright, Definite, Diaphanous, Ditinct, Eidetic, Explicit, Express, Intelligible, Legible, Limpid, Lucid, Perspicuous, Serene, Set, Shrill, Sunny, Unequivocal, Vivid), شفاف (Crystal, Crystalline, Diaphanous, Lucid, Perspicuous, Sleek, Transparent). (various references)

Finnish		valaista (illuminate, illustrate, light, light up, shine, throw light). (various references)

French		expliquer, élucider, éclaircir. (various references)

German		erläutern (account for, clarify, exemplify, explain, explicate, expound, gloss, illuminate, to elucidate, to exemplify, to explain). (various references)

Greek		διευκρινίζω (clarify, exemplify, illustrate, make a point). (various references)

Hebrew		לפרש (construe, explain, gloss, interpret), ל�"ב�"יר (brighten, clarify, explain oneself, illustrate, render), לבאר (clarify, explain, expound, gloss, make clear). (various references)

Hungarian		megmagyaráz (account for, to elucidate, to explain, to explicate, to expound, to illuminate, to illumine, to unfold, unfold), érthetõvé tesz (explain). (various references)

Indonesian		menerangkan (construe, declarative, explain, settle), dalilkan (defend an opinion). (various references)

Italian		delucidare (enucleate), chiarire (become clear, clarify, clear, clear up, disabuse, enlighten, explain, make clear, make light of, solve). (various references)

Korean		설명하십시�" (Explain, illustrate). (various references)

Manx		ceau soilshey (explain, lighten). (various references)

Norwegian		klargjøre. (various references)

Pig Latin		elucidateay

Portuguese		em outro lugar (somewhere else), elucidar (clear, illuminate). (various references)

Romanian		explica (account, account for, construe, define, enlighten, enunciate, explain, explicate, expound, illuminate, illumine, interpret, justify, riddle, show, untie, vindicate), elucida, lãmuri (clear, clinch, define, disembroil, disentangle, enlighten, explain, illuminate, illumine, illustrate, justify, lighten, riddle, show, solve, understand, unravel, untie), desluşi (discern, discover, distinguish, explain, interpret, read, recognize, riddle, unravel). (various references)

Russian		разъяснять (clarify, expound, illuminate, make clear, make plain). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		objasniti (account, explain, make understand). (various references)

Spanish		elucidar (declare, explain), dilucidar. (various references)

Swedish		klargöra (clarify, illuminate, make clear), förklara (account for, be explained, clarify, declaration, declare, explain, explicate, expound, glorify, illuminate, interpret, profess, return, state). (various references)

Thai		ชี้แจง (คำทางการ). (various references)

Turkish		izah etmek (explain), aydınlatmak (brighten, charge, civilize, clear, clear up, clue, dissolve, elicit, enlighten, enucleate, flash, flash on, illume, illuminate, illumine, irradiate, let daylight into smth., light, light up, lighten, post, rake up, set light to, shine upon, solve, unravel), açıklamak (account, account for, account for smth., clarify, clear, clear up, declare, declassify, deliver oneself, develop, dilate, dot the i's, enucleate, evidence, explain, explicate, expound, express, get across, give smth. publicity, impart, intimate, lay open, make smth. clear, plead, render, set up, show, show forth, spit out, state, unclose, unfold, unveil). (various references)

Turkmen		юцhlelendirmek (illuminate). (various references)

Ukranian		висвітлювати, пояснювати (account, account for, analogize, attribute, authorize, clear, comment, construe, explain, illustrate, rationalize, show, translate). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	inlustra, inlustrabis, inlustrabo, inlustratione, inlustrem, inlustret. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "elucidate": elucidated, elucidates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Elucidate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eclucidate, eiucidate, Elapidae, ellucidate, elucedate, elucicate, elucidale, elucieate, elucilate, eludicate, eluscidate, ilucidate, lucidae, lucidate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "elucidate" (pronounced uluw"sudā't)
4	-u d ā' t	accommodate, consolidate, dilapidate, intimidate, invalidate, liquidate, mithridate.
3	-d ā' t	backdate, inundate, mandate, outdate.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-l-t-u"
	-1 letter: delicate.
	-2 letters: citadel, cleated, deltaic, dialect, ductile, edictal, educate, leucite.
	-3 letters: aculei, aedile, atelic, audile, caudle, cedula, ceiled, dautie, deceit, decile, delate, delict, deltic, detail, dilate, dilute, ductal, dulcet, elated, eluate, eluted, ideate, luetic, tailed, talced, teledu, tuladi.
	-4 letters: acted, acute, adieu, adult, ailed, alcid, audit, aulic, cadet, cauld, cited, clade, cleat, clued, culet, culti, cutie, dealt, decal, deice, delta, deuce, dicta, ducal, ducat, dulia, eclat, edict, edile, educe, educt, elate, elect, elide, elite, elude, elute, etude, ideal, ileac, laced, lated, lucid, ludic, lutea, luted, telae, telia, telic, tical, tidal, tilde, tiled, utile.
	-5 letters: aced, acid, adit, aide, alec, alee, alit, auld, cade, cadi, caid, cate, caul, cede, cedi, ceil, celt, cete, cite, clad, clit, clue, cued, cult, cute, dace, dale, date, daut, deal, deet, deil, dele, deli, delt, dial, dice, diel, diet, dita, dite, dual, duce, duci, duct, duel, duet, duit, edit, eide, etic, etui, iced, idea, idle, ilea, lace, lade, laic, laid, late, lati, laud, lead, leet, leud, lice, lied, lieu, lite, litu, luce, lude, lute, tace, tael, tail, talc, tale, tali, teal, teed, teel, tela, tele, tide, tied, tile, tule.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-l-t-u"
	+1 letter: elucidated, elucidates, pediculate.
	+2 letters: binucleated, denticulate, elucidative, geniculated, pediculates, reduplicate, reticulated, revictualed, vesiculated.
	+3 letters: denticulated, gesticulated, multifaceted, nucleotidase, recirculated, recultivated, reduplicated, reduplicates, reinoculated, relubricated, revictualled, vermiculated.
	+4 letters: countervailed, educabilities, nucleotidases, rearticulated, recapitulated, reduplicative, sextuplicated, unpredictable.
	+5 letters: conceptualised, conceptualized, contextualized, counterclaimed, counterrallied, multichambered, multinucleated, rediscountable, uncredentialed, unpredictables.
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