elucidate
About 1.43 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To make (something) lucid (“bright, luminous; also, clear, transparent”).
- verb To make (something) clear and understandable; to clarify, to illuminate, to shed light on.
- adjective Clear, understandable.
Similar words
clear up sort out straighten out clear shed light on enlighten illuminate clarify crystallize explain
Often followed by
the this and a some these their its what
Word family
elucidated elucidates elucidating elucidation elucidations elucidative
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