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Verb: lucubrate  'loo-kyû`breyt
  1. Add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing
    "She lucubrated on the main ideas in her dissertation"
    - elaborate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilate

Derived forms: lucubrated, lucubrating, lucubrates

See also: lucubration

Type of: clarify, clear up, elucidate