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explainverb to make plain or understandablea pamphlet that explains the medical procedure in language that any layperson can understand clarify, clear (up), construe, demonstrate, demystify, elucidate, explicate, expound, get across, illuminate, illustrate, interpret, simplify, spell out, unriddle decipher, decodeanalyze, break downdisentangle, undo, unravel, unscramble, untangleresolve, solvedefine, specifyannotate, commentate, gloss obscure befog, cloudconfound, confuse, obfuscate to give the reason for or cause ofcan you explain your very odd behavior at the wedding reception? account (for), attribute, explain away, rationalize condone, excuse, forgive, justifyabsolve, acquit, exculpate, exonerate, vindicate explain, expound, explicate, elucidate, interpret mean to make something clear or understandable.explain implies a making plain or intelligible what is not immediately obvious or entirely known.explain the rules expound implies a careful often elaborate explanation.expounding a scientific theory explicate adds the idea of a developed or detailed analysis.explicate a poem elucidate stresses the throwing of light upon as by offering details or motives previously unclear or only implicit.elucidate an obscure passage interpret adds to explain the need for imagination or sympathy or special knowledge in dealing with something.interpreting a work of art in the 15th century |