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re-explain

re-explain verb: to explain again or in a different way.

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 re-explain

third-person singular presentre-explains
present participlere-explaining
past participlere-explained
pastre-explained
alternative formreexplain
alternative formreëxplain

Origin of re-explain

From re- + explain.

Words formed from re-explain

  • re-explanation

Questions about re-explain

What does re-explain mean?
Re-explain means to explain again or in a different way.
What part of speech is re-explain?
Re-explain is a verb.
What is the past tense of re-explain?
The past tense of re-explain is re-explained.

Words near re-explain in the dictionary

  1. re-excavations
  2. re-experience
  3. re-experienced
  4. re-experiences
  5. re-experiencing
  6. re-explain
  7. re-explained
  8. re-explaining
  9. re-explains
  10. re-explicate
  11. re-explicated

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