explain

Speech parts

1. explain - Adjective

2. explain - Verb

Meaning

To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand.

To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound; to unfold and illustrate the meaning of; as, to explain a chapter of the Bible.

To give an explanation.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

interpret excuse elucidate expound explicate clear up unroll state present show reason clear account alibi describe

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Antonyms

japan buffalo ravel fox manta gaslight

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Hypernyms

state say tell justify inform vindicate

Hyponyms

rede alibi comment interpret clarify elucidate

Related terms

explanation explanatory explanatorily

Phrases with the word

to explain explain the situation to I explain explain the circumstances to explain oneself hard to explain

Derivatives

explained explaining

Examples

Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks. Euripides

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? Jean Cocteau

Theology --An effort to explain the unknowable by putting it into terms of the not worth knowing. H. L. Mencken

Philosophy means being able to explain why you are happy when you are poor. American Proverb

If two proverbs are not similar, one is not used to explain the other. Ghana Proverb

Never complain. never explain. American Proverb

Close letter words and terms

expiscation expiscator expiscatory explain a little about explain away explain briefly