| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | 1. To make understandable: decipher, explain, explicate, expound, interpret, spell out. Archaic : enucleate. Idioms: put into plain English. See EXPLAIN. 2. To understand in a particular way: interpret, read, take. See UNDERSTAND. 3. To express in another language, while systematically retaining the original sense: put, render, translate. See WORDS.
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