English verb: explicate
|1.||explicate (communication) make plain and comprehensible|
|Samples||He explained the laws of physics to his students.|
|Examples||Sam and Sue explicate the movie|
|Pattern of use||Somebody ----s something.|
Somebody ----s somebody.
Something ----s something.
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
|Narrower (hyponym)||account for, clarify, clear up, comment, elucidate, interpret, naturalize, rede|
|2.||explicate (communication) elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses|
|Samples||Could you develop the ideas in your thesis.|
|Pattern of use||Somebody ----s something|
|Broader (hypernym)||conjecture, hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, speculate, suppose, theorise, theorize|
|Narrower (hyponym)||mature, redevelop, reformulate|
|Verb group||acquire, develop, develop, evolve|