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Definition of explicable adjective from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

explicable

adjective

NAmE//ɪkˈsplɪkəbl//

, NAmE//ˈɛksplɪkəbl//

[not usually before noun] (formal)

that can be explained or understood His behavior is only explicable in terms of (= because of) his recent illness. opposite inexplicable

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