LUCUBRATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lucubrate mean? 

• LUCUBRATE (verb)
  The verb LUCUBRATE has 1 sense:

1. add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing

  Familiarity information: LUCUBRATE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LUCUBRATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they lucubrate    ... he / she / it lucubrates   
Past simple: lucubrated   
Past participle: lucubrated   
-ing form: lucubrating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

dilate; elaborate; enlarge; expand; expatiate; exposit; expound; flesh out; lucubrate

Context example:

She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation

Hypernyms (to "lucubrate" is one way to...):

clarify; clear up; elucidate (make clear and (more) comprehensible)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "lucubrate"):

detail (provide details for)

exposit; expound; set forth (state)

exemplify; illustrate; instance (clarify by giving an example of)

particularise; particularize; specialise; specialize; specify (be specific about)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

lucubration (a solemn literary work that is the product of laborious cogitation)