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elaborate
of a living organism : to alter the chemical makeup of (as a foodstuff) to one more suited to bodily needs (as of assimilation or excretion); especially : to build up (complex organic compounds) from simple ingredients <the toxin elaborated by the tetanus bacterium>
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