re-explain

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Etymology

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From re- +‎ explain.

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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.
    • 2014, Brian Anse Patrick, Zombology: Zombies and the Decline of the West (and Guns), London: Arktos, →ISBN, page 40:
      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 more modern age.

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