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re-explaining

re-explaining is the present participle and gerund 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

Questions about re-explaining

What is re-explaining the present participle and gerund of?
Re-explaining is the present participle and gerund of re-explain.

Words near re-explaining in the dictionary

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

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