Usually means: To work or study laboriously.
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  1. elucubrate: Merriam-Webster
  2. elucubrate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. elucubrate: Collins English Dictionary
  4. elucubrate: Wordnik
  5. elucubrate: Wiktionary
  6. elucubrate: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Elucubrate, elucubrate: Dictionary.com
  8. Elucubrate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. elucubrate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Elucubrate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. elucubrate: FreeDictionary.org
  12. elucubrate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ verb:  To solve, write or compose by working studiously at night; to study.

Similar:
lucubrate, work out, ellucidate, study, think out, scholasticize, meditate, outstudy, ruminate, compose, more...

Opposite:
simplify, summarize, abridge, condense

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Similar:
lucubrate, work out, ellucidate, study, think out, scholasticize, meditate, outstudy, ruminate, compose, more...

Opposite:
simplify, summarize, abridge, condense



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