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reexplicate

reexplicate verb: to explicate again; to analyze or explain again.

Verb

reexplicate (third-person singular simple present reexplicates, present participle reexplicating, simple past and past participle reexplicated)

  1. To explicate again; to analyze or explain again.
    • He was to reexplicate the poem, as his professor was not satisfied with his work.
    • When one refers to a case, one has to reexplicate the case and indicate why it is relevant in the present dispute.2017, Niels van Dijk, Grounds of the Immaterial, unnumbered page

Examples of reexplicate in a sentence

  • Yet Mami makes me repeat and reexplicate everything I say as though she's a dim-witted, illiterate, recently arrived, monolingual refugee.2005, Gigi Anders, Jubana!, page 12:
  • […] there ARE patterns that repeat themselves from novel to novel and that when they are recognized, they can be used to reexplicate the novels that have gone before them or those that follow: […]2022 December 16, marilenn65, wreninkpaper.com:

Forms of reexplicate

third-person singular presentreexplicates
present participlereexplicating
past participlereexplicated
pastreexplicated
alternative formre-explicate

Origin of reexplicate

re- + explicate

Questions about reexplicate

What does reexplicate mean?
Reexplicate means to explicate again; to analyze or explain again.
How do you use reexplicate in a sentence?
Yet Mami makes me repeat and reexplicate everything I say as though she's a dim-witted, illiterate, recently arrived, monolingual refugee.
What part of speech is reexplicate?
Reexplicate is a verb.
What is the past tense of reexplicate?
The past tense of reexplicate is reexplicated.

Words near reexplicate in the dictionary

  1. reexperiencing
  2. reexplain
  3. reexplaining
  4. reexplanation
  5. reexplanations
  6. reexplicate
  7. reexplicated
  8. reexplicates
  9. reexplicating
  10. reexploration
  11. reexplorations

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