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reexplain

reexplain is the alternative 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 reexplain

third-person singular presentreexplains
present participlereexplaining
past participlereexplained
pastreexplained

Origin of reexplain

From re- + explain.

Questions about reexplain

What is reexplain the alternative spelling of?
Reexplain is the alternative spelling of re-explain.

Words near reexplain in the dictionary

  1. reexpels
  2. reexperience
  3. reexperienced
  4. reexperiences
  5. reexperiencing
  6. reexplain
  7. reexplaining
  8. reexplanation
  9. reexplanations
  10. reexplicate
  11. reexplicated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reexplain (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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