Definition Dictionary

To raise something in position, status, quality, or level.

To draw out a response, information, or feeling.

The skill or manner of speaking clearly and expressively.

Expressing ideas or feelings fluently and persuasively.

To make a meaning or difficult point clear.

To escape capture or remain beyond someone's grasp or understanding.

Difficult to find, catch, achieve, or define.

Extremely thin and weakened, especially through lack of nourishment.

To issue, flow, or originate from a source.

To take away the strength, effectiveness, or power of something.

To decorate or add details, sometimes to exaggerate an account.

A person or thing that gives a clear, concrete expression to an idea or quality.

To give a concrete form to an idea or represent it fully.

At a very early stage of development.

To correct or improve the wording of a text.

Retired while retaining an honorary title.

Prominent and highly respected in a field.

Able to understand or share another person's feelings and experience.

The capacity to understand or share another person's feelings or perspective.

Based on observation or experience rather than theory alone.

To strive to equal or surpass a model through imitation.

An attempt to match or surpass a model through imitation.

To express the essential features of something briefly.

To include or surround within a larger whole.