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detaileth

detaileth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of detail.

Meaning of detail

Verb

detail (third-person singular simple present details, present participle detailing, simple past and past participle detailed)

  1. (transitive) To explain in detail.
    • I'll detail the exact procedure to you later.
    Synonyms:
    specify
  2. (transitive) To clean carefully (particularly of road vehicles, always pronounced /ˈdiːteɪl/)
    • We need to have the minivan detailed.
  3. (transitive) To assign to a particular task.
    • Two years after England’s World Cup victory, Stiles was at Wembley again to help Manchester United become the first English team to win the European Cup final. Again Eusébio was one of his opponents, playing for Benfica, and again Stiles was detailed to keep him quiet. […]2020 October 30, Brian Glanville, “Nobby Stiles obituary”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2021
    Synonyms:
    detach, second

See all 12 meanings of detail

Origin of detaileth

detail + -eth

Questions about detaileth

What is detaileth the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Detaileth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of detail.

Words near detaileth in the dictionary

  1. detailedness
  2. detailee
  3. detailees
  4. detailer
  5. detailers
  6. detaileth
  7. detailing
  8. detailingly
  9. detailings
  10. detailist
  11. detailists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: detaileth (page history and authors); detail (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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