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reëxplain

reëxplain is the rare spelling of re-explain.

Meaning of re-explain

Verb

re-explain (third-person singular simple present re-explains, present participle re-explaining, simple past and past participle re-explained)

  1. To explain again or in a different way.
    • The story of simple Bernadette and the Lady of Lourdes, for an example of the readily transmutable quality of visionary rumors, has been re-explained as a UFO visitation. It has thus been recycled and hermeneutically reinterpreted to accommodate the unconscious content and symbolic needs of the...2014, Brian Anse Patrick, Zombology: Zombies and the Decline of the West (and Guns), London: Arktos, →ISBN, page 40

Forms of reëxplain

third-person singular presentreëxplains
present participlereëxplaining
past participlereëxplained
pastreëxplained

Questions about reëxplain

What is reëxplain the rare spelling of?
Reëxplain is the rare spelling of re-explain.

Words near reëxplain in the dictionary

  1. reëxamine
  2. reëxamined
  3. reëxamines
  4. reëxamining
  5. reëxpand
  6. reëxplain
  7. reëxpress
  8. reëxpressed
  9. reëxtend
  10. reëxtended
  11. reëxtending

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reëxplain (page history and authors); re-explain (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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