Thesaurus: explicate

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1. a. Evolved; unfolded.
2. v. t. To unfold; to expand; to lay open.
3. v. t. To unfold the meaning or sense of; to explain; to clear of difficulties or obscurity; to interpret.
4. v. make plain and comprehensible
5. v. elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses
6. Evolved; unfolded. Jer. Taylor. 1. To unfold; to expand; to lay open. [Obs.] "They explicate the leaves." Blackmore. 2. To unfold the meaning or sense of; to explain; to clear of difficulties or obscurity; to interpret. The last verse of his last satire is not yet sufficiently explicated. Dryden.
7. Evolved; unfolded. Jer. Taylor.
8. v:100 v. elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses