Synonyms

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der intelligible; make explicit or unequivocal, define, make precise, spell out, specify; show, point out, demonstrate, manifest, exhibit, present, set forth; annotate, gloss, comment upon, margin, footnote; explain, describe, explicate, interpret; delineate, depict, portray, picture, illustrate; solve, resolve, clear up, decipher, figure out.
2. expose, disclose, reveal, bring out, Archaic, enucleate; lay open, unfold, uncover, bare, unveil, unmask, make visible.

elucidation, n. 1. elucidating, throwing light on, making lucid or clear, illumination; clarification, making plain, simplification; defining, definition, specifying, spelling out; demonstration, manifestation, exhibition, presentation, exemplification; exposure, disclosure, revelation; delineation, depiction, portrayal, illustration; explanation, description, explication; interpretation, version, rendition, deduction, inference; diagnosis, solution.
2. commentary, comment, critique, exegesis, exposition; annotation, gloss, footnote, note, scholium, marginalia.

elude, v. 1. evade, avoid, dodge, bilk, duck, give [s.o.] the slip, lose [s.o.], Sl. duck and run, Sl. dog it, Sl. ditch [s.o.], Sl. throw [s.o.] off the scent, Sl. shake [s.o.] off; vanish, disappear, do the disappearing act, Inf. make oneself scarce.
2. escape, get away, get free, get clear of, make or effect one's escape, make good one's escape, Archaic. scape.

elusive, adj. 1. evasive, elusory, slippery, shifty, hard to pin down, Inf. cagey.
2. intangible, impalpable, imponderable, undefin-able, inexplicable.

Elysium, n. heaven, paradise, eternity, glory, kingdom of heaven, Inf. kingdom come, happy hunting ground, Nirvana, Valhalla, Elysian Fields, Bower of Bliss.

emaciate, v. atrophy, wither, shrivel, dry up, Brit, Dial, wizen; shrink, reduce, contract, dwindle, attenuate; waste, consume, erode, wear away, eat away; weaken, enfeeble, enervate; starve, undernourish, underfeed.

emaciated, adj. gaunt, drawn, haggard, pinched, hollow-eyed, withered, shriveled, shrunken, dried up, wizened, Brit. Dial, wizen; scrawny, scraggy, spare, skinny, thin, lean, lanky, lank, slim, slender, attenuate, attenuated, tenuous; atrophied, atrophic, tabes-cent, wasted, phthisic, phthisical, worn, eroded, decayed, Pathol, marasmic, Pathol, marasmoid; frail, weak, feeble, enfeebled, enervated, infirm; undernourished, underfed, starved.

emaciation, n. 1. gauntness, haggardness, witheredness, shrunkenness, boniness; scrawniness, scragginess, spareness, skinniness, thinness, leanness, lankness, lankiness, slimness, slenderness, attenuation, tenuity; Psychiatry, anorexia.
2. atrophy, atrophia, withering, shriveling; consumption, consumptiveness, phthisis, phthisic, wasting away, erosion, decay, degeneration, Pathol, marasmus, Pathol, tabes; weakening, enfeebling, enfeeblement, impairment, enervation, invalidation; undernourishment, malnutrition, inanition, starvation.

emanate, v. 1. arise, appear, spring, effuse, exude, effervesce, Phys. Geog. debouch, discharge, ooze, filter, percolate; surge from, stem from, trickle from, flow from, proceed from, take rise from, result from, originate.
2. emit, issue, send forth, radiate, give off, project, exhale, disembogue; give out, send out, put out, waft out, fling out, throw out.