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synonyms for explicate

  • amplify
  • elucidate
  • expound
  • untangle
  • construe
  • demonstrate
  • develop
  • dilate
  • enucleate
  • expatiate
  • explain
  • illustrate
  • interpret
  • unfold
  • clear up
  • enlarge upon
  • give the big picture
  • make clear
  • make explicit
  • make plain
  • run down
  • spell out
  • tell why
  • work out
See also synonyms for: explicator
On this page you'll find 55 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to explicate, such as: amplify, elucidate, expound, untangle, construe, and demonstrate.

antonyms for explicate

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  • compress
  • conceal
  • confuse
  • hide
  • lessen
  • obscure
  • stop
  • cloud
  • complicate
  • mystify
  • tangle
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How to use explicate in a sentence

How he can wield such a weapon, or have modified it to serve his own aims, is never suitably explicated, nor is the reason why John is so wildly hung up on remaking the world by eliminating the human urge for deception.
NETFLIX’S ‘THE SANDMAN’ IS ONE TERRIBLY BORING FANTASY SERIESNICK SCHAGERAUGUST 5, 2022THE DAILY BEAST
The truth is, no one can fully explicate why Kipchoge is the GOAT.
ELIUD KIPCHOGE IS THE GOAT. WHAT MAKES HIM SO GOOD?SYADRONAUGUST 21, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINE
The well-explicated inexplicable mystery the site hopes to have explained is presented in a video produced with the now-common aesthetic of the amateur Internet sleuth.
A CONSPIRACY WEBSITE WILL PAY YOU $10,000 TO BRING IT BACK TO REALITYPHILIP BUMPJULY 30, 2021WASHINGTON POST
The homespun charms and lyrically explicated anguishes of their musical make their door one you’ll want to knock on, again.
GIVE THIS FOLK ROCK DUO 27 MINUTES. THEY’LL GIVE YOU A MUSICALLY HEARTBREAKING WORLD.PETER MARKSMARCH 18, 2021WASHINGTON POST
Science takes as its province mechanical causes, and leaves formal and final causes to the philosopher to explicate.
A CRITICAL HISTORY OF GREEK PHILOSOPHYW. T. STACE
An attempt to explicate them from the congruity and incongruity of Bodies: what those proprieties are.
MICROGRAPHIAROBERT HOOKE
We have merely to explicate the idea of intelligent spirit possessing being in its plenitude.
THE CATHOLIC WORLD. VOLUME III; NUMBERS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.E. RAMEUR
But Marie say there is the miss understand in our letters she cannot explicate.
DEER GODCHILDMARGUERITE BERNARD AND EDITH SERRELL
Whether, if so, this will not explicate the Phnomena of the Clouds.
MICROGRAPHIAROBERT HOOKE
This battle of Girondins and Mountain let no man ask history to explicate.
THE WORLD'S GREATEST BOOKS, VOL XII.ARTHUR MEE
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
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