in detail

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in detail

  1. (idiomatic) Thoroughly; including every detail; with all particulars.
    I do not understand it; would you please explain it to me in detail.
  2. (military) By engaging small sections of an enemy army rather than fighting a single pitched battle against the entire enemy force.
    Darius defeated the rebels in detail.
    • 1855, Walter Keating Kelly, The History of Russia: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time. Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources, Including the Works of Karamsin, Tooke, and Ségur, page 175:
      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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