re-explain
verbEtymology From re- + explain.
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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 more modern age.2014, Brian Anse Patrick, Zombology: Zombies and the Decline of the West (and Guns), London: Arktos, →ISBN, page 40:
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- re-explanation