re-explain

See also: reexplain

English

Alternative forms

• reexplain
• reëxplain (obsolete)

Etymology

From 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.
   • 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.

Derived terms

• re-explanation

Anagrams

• explainer