Thesaurus: explain

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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. 1. To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. [Obs.] The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf. Evelyn. 2. 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. Commentators to explain the difficult passages to you. Gay. To explain away, to get rid of by explanation. "Those explain the meaning quite "away." Pope. Syn. -- To expound; interpret; elucidate; clear up. To give an explanation.
7. v:100 v. make plain and comprehensible v. define