| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | 1. To disclose bit by bit: develop, evolve. Idioms: fill in the details, go into detail. See SHOW. 2. To express at greater length or in greater detail: amplify, develop, dilate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, labor. See EXPLAIN. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Difficult to understand because of intricacy: byzantine, complex, complicated, convoluted, daedal, Daedalian, intricate, involute, involved, knotty, labyrinthine, tangled. See SIMPLE. 2. Complexly detailed: complicated, fancy, intricate. See PLAIN.
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