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dilucidating

dilucidating is the present participle and gerund of dilucidate.

Meaning of dilucidate

Verb

dilucidate (third-person singular simple present dilucidates, present participle dilucidating, simple past and past participle dilucidated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To elucidate; to clarify.
    • And because the proceeding by interrogatories doth in my opinion much dilucidate things […] I will make use of that artifice.1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2)

Questions about dilucidating

What is dilucidating the present participle and gerund of?
Dilucidating is the present participle and gerund of dilucidate.

Words near dilucidating in the dictionary

  1. Diltses
  2. dilucid
  3. dilucidate
  4. dilucidated
  5. dilucidates
  6. dilucidating
  7. dilucidation
  8. dilucidations
  9. dilucular
  10. diluent
  11. diluents

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