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I asked him to explicate: "If someone from a town blows himself up and kills Jews, we should wipe out the town he's from, kill them all.

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  1. transitive verb To make clear the meaning of; explain. See Synonyms at explain.

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  • And is this position based on logic that you can explicate, or simply fear? —  Think Progress
  • The last time I checked with Petey, this was a supposedly dead -- or, to be precise, non-living -- universe until March 4, 3.85 billion years ago, when Life suddenly appeared, or moved from the implicate to the explicate order. —  One Cosmos
  • There's an egregious statement in the press release that I must explicate: —  Wi-Fi Networking News
  • Can you please further explicate this? " —  Mormon Stories Podcast Archive
  • You are entering explicate adult content! —  Penisbot.com Quality Porn Links
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  1. Latin explicāre, explicāt-, to unfold, explain : ex-, ex- + plicāre, to fold; see plek- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin explicatus, past participle of explicare (later Italian esplicare = Spanish Portuguese Provencal explicar = French expliquer), unfold, spread out, set in order, treat, explain, explicate, from ex, out, + plicare, fold: see plait, pleat, plicate. From the other form of the past participle of explicare, namely explicitus, come English explicit, explait, exploit, q. v.
  2. from Latin explicatus, past participle: see the verb.
 

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/ˈɛksplɪkeɪt/
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