verb
- to study or work hard, especially late into the night; to labor over written work
Usage: formal; literary; often implies intense intellectual effort
Examples
- She spent the evening lucubrating over her dissertation.
- The scholar was lucubrating in the library until midnight.
- He lucubrated for weeks to prepare his research paper.
- They lucubrated together on the complex mathematical proofs.
- The writer lucubrated late into the night to meet the deadline.
- Students lucubrating before final exams often feel exhausted.