- 1. a. To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. Source: opted
- 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. Source: opted
- 3. v. i. To give an explanation. Source: opted
- 4. v. make plain and comprehensible Source: wordnet
- 5. v. serve as a reason or cause or justification of Source: wordnet
- 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. Source: webster
- 7. v:100 v. make plain and comprehensible v. define Source: ecdict
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