reexplain

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A form of re-explain — To explain again or in a different way.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

verbreexplain (third-person singular simple present reexplains, present participle reexplaining, simple past and past participle reexplained)

present singular third person reexplains · participle present reexplaining · participle past reexplained · past reexplained

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of re-explain.

    For play-based activities, the caregiver may need to support their child by getting materials and reexplaining the tasks, Dr. Farhadi said.

    2020 September 28, Danielle Braff, “The New Helicopter Parents Are on Zoom”, in The New York Times
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    At midday, Healy leaves to go back to Washington. On the airplane she reexplains her position carefully. She is philosophical about the reception she has received. It is not the first time she has walked into a room and felt the vibrations changing.

    1992 June 21, Malcolm Gladwell, “THE HEALY EXPERIMENT”, in The Washington Post

    Woodward’s mild rebuke of Tatis received backlash from most players who spoke out, and even Woodward backtracked and reexplained himself the next day.

    2020 August 22, Adam Kilgore, “Baseball’s unwritten rules may be softening, but they haven’t gone away”, in The Washington Post

    “You saw the disaster that followed when Trump spoke out against the Florida [amendment],” said Trish Crouse, a political science professor at the University of New Haven. “He found himself having to backtrack and reexplain himself.”

    2024 June 10, Justine McDaniel and Anumita Kaur, “Harris’s own ballot will include crime measure dividing Democrats in Calif.”, in The Washington Post

Origin

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Englishexplain
  7. Englishreexplain

From re- + explain.

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APA

reexplain. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reexplain

MLA

“reexplain.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reexplain. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “reexplain,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reexplain.

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