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Thesaurus: explain

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

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  1. a. To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand.
  2. a. 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.
  3. v. i. To give an explanation.
  4. v. make plain and comprehensible
  5. v. serve as a reason or cause or justification of
  6. v:100 v. make plain and comprehensible v. define