"reëxplain" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "reëxplains",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "reëxplaining",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "reëxplained",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "reëxplained",
      "tags": [
        "past"
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    }
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      "expansion": "reëxplain (third-person singular simple present reëxplains, present participle reëxplaining, simple past and past participle reëxplained)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "re-explain"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1907, Edward Alsworth Ross, Foundations of Sociology, New York: The Mason Press, page 150:",
          "text": "After a human activity has been explained in terms of motive, why reëxplain it in terms of energy?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1927, Paul Deresco Augsburg, On the Air, New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 135:",
          "text": "“Really, old man, I would like to hear Carlyle Ayers, if you could— You see,” Charlie made haste to reëxplain, “Sam and he were such good friends in school, and I’ve known Sam—why, just like a brother, you might say, for going on close to two years. Is that WQY singing now?”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "Rare spelling of re-explain."
      ],
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  "word": "reëxplain"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "reëxplains",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "reëxplaining",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "reëxplained",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "reëxplained",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "reëxplain (third-person singular simple present reëxplains, present participle reëxplaining, simple past and past participle reëxplained)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "word": "re-explain"
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        {
          "ref": "1907, Edward Alsworth Ross, Foundations of Sociology, New York: The Mason Press, page 150:",
          "text": "After a human activity has been explained in terms of motive, why reëxplain it in terms of energy?",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1927, Paul Deresco Augsburg, On the Air, New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 135:",
          "text": "“Really, old man, I would like to hear Carlyle Ayers, if you could— You see,” Charlie made haste to reëxplain, “Sam and he were such good friends in school, and I’ve known Sam—why, just like a brother, you might say, for going on close to two years. Is that WQY singing now?”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Rare spelling of re-explain."
      ],
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