Meaning of in detail | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Thoroughly; including every detail; with all particulars.
   idiomatic
2. By engaging small sections of an enemy army rather than fighting a single pitched battle against the entire enemy force.

Equivalents

Examples

“I do not understand it; please explain it to me in detail.”

“When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.”

“Darius defeated the rebels in detail.”

“Macdonald might easily have destroyed them in detail could he have fallen upon them at once; but the time he spent in reorganising his army in Tuscany, and in concerting measures with Moreau, was well employed by Suvarof in promptly concentrating his forces.”

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