explicate
verb (used with object)
to make plain or clear; explain; interpret.
explicated
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past participleof explicate.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof explicate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
explicateverb (used with object)to make plain or clear; explain; interpret.
Example Sentences
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“What really needs to be explicated is not the plain vanilla meaning of insurrection but the whole phrase — insurrection against the United States Constitution,” Delahunty testified on Friday.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2023
“What really needs to be explicated is not the plain vanilla meaning of insurrection but the whole phrase - insurrection against the United States Constitution,” Delahunty testified on Friday.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 3, 2023
That point is meticulously explicated by TechCrunch's Natasha Lomas in her surgical analysis.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2023
The juvenile tone, focus on a family-friendly story and painfully explicated themes and lessons clearly indicate that this film is aimed at a younger audience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2023
A conjecture at the reason of these colours explicated by several Experiments and Reasons: First, by continual cleaving the Body till it become colour'd.
From Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Robert Hooke
