explain
verb (used with object)
to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible.
misexplained
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a word derived from
explain.
Example Sentences
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Von Hammer took liberties with the text which can compare only with those of Lane: he abridged and retrenched till the likeness in places entirely disappeared; he shirked some difficult passages and he misexplained others.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
