Another word for explain

  • analyze
  • clarify
  • define
  • demonstrate
  • describe
  • disclose
  • expound
  • illustrate
  • interpret
  • justify
  • point out
  • read
  • resolve
  • reveal
  • solve
  • spell out
  • tell
  • annotate
  • construe
  • decipher
  • diagram
  • elucidate
  • excuse
  • explicate
  • manifest
  • paraphrase
  • rationalize
  • refine
  • render
  • teach
  • translate
  • unfold
  • unravel
  • untangle
  • account for
  • break down
  • bring out
  • clear up
  • get across
  • go into detail
  • make plain
  • put across
  • put in plain English
  • set right
  • throw light upon

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To explain is to make plain, clear, or intelligible something that is not known or understood: to explain a theory or a problem. To elucidate is to throw light on what before was dark and obscure, usually by illustration and commentary and sometimes by elaborate explanation: They asked him to elucidate his statement. To expound is to give a methodical, detailed, scholarly explanation of something, usually Scriptures, doctrines, or philosophy: to expound the doctrine of free will. To interpret is to give the meaning of something by paraphrase, by translation, or by an explanation based on personal opinion: to interpret a poem or a symbol.

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WORDS RELATED TO EXPLAIN

  • clarify
  • elucidate
  • explain
  • justify
  • resolve
  • clarifying
  • elucidating
  • explaining
  • justifying
  • resolving
  • clarifies
  • elucidates
  • explains
  • justifies
  • resolves
  • comment
  • commentate
  • construe
  • define
  • elucidate
  • explain
  • expound
  • footnote
  • gloss
  • illustrate
  • interpret
  • note
  • remark
  • commentated
  • commented
  • construed
  • defined
  • elucidated
  • explained
  • expounded
  • footnoted
  • glossed
  • illustrated
  • interpreted
  • noted
  • remarked
  • acknowledge
  • answer back
  • argue
  • back at you
  • back-talk
  • be in touch
  • claim
  • comeback
  • contest
  • counterclaim
  • defend
  • deny
  • disprove
  • dispute
  • echo
  • explain
  • feedback
  • field the question
  • get back at
  • get back to
  • give a snappy comeback
  • parry
  • plead
  • rebut
  • refute
  • rejoin
  • remark
  • resolve
  • respond
  • retaliate
  • retort
  • return
  • sass
  • say
  • settle
  • shoot back
  • solve
  • squelch
  • talk back
  • top

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2318 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ ɛksplˈe͡ɪn], [ ɛksplˈe‍ɪn], [ ɛ_k_s_p_l_ˈeɪ_n]

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    Synonyms for Explain:

    • adj.

      Other relevant words: (adjective)

      • utter.
    • n.

      • run-through,
      • lay out.

      • plead,
      • construe.

      • pertain to,
      • surround,
      • reason,
      • interrelate,
      • do with,
      • correspond,
      • resolve,
      • be associated with,
      • ask,
      • link,
      • bear on,
      • have something to do with something,
      • be bound up/together.

      • inasmuch as,
      • look at.

      • extenuate,
      • palliate,
      • sleek over,
      • whitewash,
      • gloss over.
    • v.

      account (verb)

      • account,
      • describe,
      • rationalize,
      • clarify.

      account for (verb)

      • ex plaining,
      • re solving,
      • ex plained,
      • ex-plains,
      • re-solves,
      • re-solved,
      • ex-plaining,
      • re solves,
      • ex plains,
      • ex-plain,
      • re-solve,
      • re-solving,
      • re solve,
      • ex plain,
      • ex-plained.

      annotate (verb)

      • re mark,
      • re-marking,
      • re marked,
      • re-marks,
      • re marks,
      • re-marked,
      • re marking.

      answer (verb)

      • come back,
      • counter-state,
      • counterclaim,
      • rebut,
      • counter-accuse,
      • return,
      • echo,
      • counter-reply,
      • reply,
      • countercharge,
      • acknowledge,
      • counter,
      • retort,
      • respond.

      answer for (verb)

      • atones for,
      • take blame for,
      • wast responsible for,
      • were responsible for,
      • accepts the responsibility for,
      • pays for,
      • accepting the responsibility for,
      • taking the blame for,
      • accepted responsibility for,
      • took blame for,
      • am responsible for,
      • takes the blame for,
      • atoning for,
      • being responsible for,
      • are responsible for,
      • was responsible for,
      • paying for,
      • art responsible for,
      • accepted the responsibility for,
      • accepts responsibility for,
      • accept responsibility for,
      • takes blame for,
      • accepting responsibility for,
      • payed for,
      • wert responsible for,
      • took the blame for,
      • taking blame for.

      argue (verb)

      • de noting,
      • talked into,
      • de-note,
      • dis-played,
      • talk in to,
      • dis playing,
      • dis play,
      • prevail up on,
      • pre sent,
      • talking in to,
      • de-noted,
      • dis played,
      • dis-playing,
      • dis-play,
      • talks in to,
      • talked in to,
      • de notes,
      • de note,
      • de-notes,
      • talking into,
      • pre-sents,
      • prevails upon,
      • pre-sent,
      • de noted,
      • dis plays,
      • pre sents,
      • talks into,
      • dis-plays,
      • de-noting.

      brief (verb)

      • giving the lowdown,
      • re capitulating,
      • pre-pared,
      • re capitulated,
      • in forms,
      • showed the lay of the land,
      • shows lay the land,
      • showed the lay of land,
      • gave lowdown,
      • show lay the land,
      • show lay of land,
      • pre pare,
      • in-form,
      • gives the lowdown,
      • showed lay of land,
      • gives lowdown,
      • showing lay of land,
      • pre pared,
      • up date,
      • in-forming,
      • up-dated,
      • pre paring,
      • re capitulate,
      • re-capitulates,
      • showing lay land,
      • letted in on,
      • showing lay the land,
      • shows the lay of land,
      • shows lay of land,
      • showed ropes,
      • shows the lay land,
      • in-forms,
      • showing ropes,
      • showed the lay the land,
      • re capitulates,
      • gave rundown,
      • show ropes,
      • showing the ropes,
      • up-dating,
      • pre-paring,
      • giving lowdown,
      • showed lay land,
      • re-capitulating,
      • gave the lowdown,
      • pre pares,
      • up-date,
      • shows lay land,
      • show the lay the land,
      • shows the ropes,
      • pre-pares,
      • gives rundown,
      • up dates,
      • show lay of the land,
      • showing the lay the land,
      • showed lay the land,
      • re-capitulate,
      • showing lay of the land,
      • pre-pare,
      • show the lay land,
      • re-capitulated,
      • showing the lay of land,
      • up-dates,
      • giving rundown,
      • in form,
      • showed the lay land,
      • lets in on,
      • give lowdown,
      • shows ropes,
      • in forming,
      • showing the lay of the land,
      • up dated,
      • shows the lay of the land,
      • showed the ropes,
      • showing the lay land,
      • up dating,
      • shows the lay the land,
      • letting in on,
      • show lay land,
      • show the lay of land,
      • shows lay of the land,
      • showed lay of the land.

      clear (verb)

      • letted the hook,
      • disculpates,
      • re-leased,
      • finding innocent,
      • letting off hook,
      • finds innocent,
      • dis charges,
      • dis charging,
      • re-lease,
      • defogged,
      • letted off hook,
      • letting the hook,
      • let the hook,
      • Disculpating,
      • lets hook,
      • Disculpated,
      • dis-charge,
      • de-fogging,
      • re leases,
      • let hook,
      • de fogs,
      • letted off the hook,
      • re leasing,
      • re-leasing,
      • de fogging,
      • lets the hook,
      • re-leases,
      • dis-charging,
      • letting hook,
      • dis-charges,
      • re lease,
      • dis charged,
      • de-fogs,
      • dis charge,
      • de fog,
      • de-fog,
      • de fogged,
      • letted hook,
      • letted go,
      • lets off hook,
      • defogs,
      • lets off the hook,
      • letting off the hook,
      • de-fogged,
      • defogging,
      • dis-charged.

      come clean (verb)

      • implicating oneself,
      • making clean breast,
      • makes clean breast,
      • confessing all,
      • confesses all,
      • implicates oneself,
      • made clean breast,
      • incriminates oneself,
      • incriminated oneself,
      • implicated oneself,
      • confessed all,
      • incriminating oneself.

      comment (verb)

      • touches up on,
      • inter-pose,
      • ex pressed,
      • inter pose,
      • dis close,
      • dis closed,
      • dis-close,
      • ex presses,
      • inter-posed,
      • dis-closed,
      • inter posing,
      • inter posed,
      • ex pressing,
      • inter-posing,
      • dis closes,
      • dis-closes,
      • touching up on,
      • touching upon,
      • dis-closing,
      • ex-presses,
      • touch up on,
      • touched upon,
      • ex press,
      • dis closing,
      • ex-press,
      • touches upon,
      • touched up on,
      • ex-pressing.

      communication (verb)

      • explain.

      confirm (verb)

      • gave the goahead,
      • gives the go ahead,
      • de-bunks,
      • doublechecking,
      • gives green light,
      • give goahead,
      • giving goahead,
      • under-pin,
      • sub-scribing,
      • gave go-ahead,
      • up-holds,
      • de bunk,
      • giving go-ahead,
      • gives the nod,
      • up held,
      • up-holding,
      • give the go ahead,
      • gives goahead,
      • giving stamp of approval,
      • gave goahead,
      • signed off on,
      • rubberstamped,
      • gave stamp of approval,
      • gives go-ahead,
      • give stamp approval,
      • under pinned,
      • double-checking,
      • gave the go ahead,
      • de bunked,
      • makes sure,
      • doublechecked,
      • rubber-stamped,
      • sub scribing,
      • under pinning,
      • giving go ahead,
      • gave green light,
      • giving the goahead,
      • gives the go-ahead,
      • sized up,
      • under pins,
      • sub-scribed,
      • giving stamp approval,
      • de-bunking,
      • makes good,
      • rubber-stamping,
      • de-bunk,
      • gave nod,
      • signs on,
      • thumbsing up,
      • laps up,
      • giving the go-ahead,
      • gives nod,
      • sizes up,
      • thumbsed up,
      • giving green light,
      • sub scribes,
      • gave go ahead,
      • up holds,
      • de bunking,
      • gives go ahead,
      • giving the go ahead,
      • gives stamp of approval,
      • sub-scribes,
      • signing off on,
      • circumstantiates,
      • doublechecks,
      • give go ahead,
      • gave the nod,
      • sub scribe,
      • de-bunked,
      • sub scribed,
      • under-pins,
      • double checks,
      • give the goahead,
      • gave high sign,
      • under-pinned,
      • giving nod,
      • giving high sign,
      • lapping up,
      • up hold,
      • Circumstantiating,
      • signs off on,
      • doublecheck,
      • up-held,
      • up holding,
      • gives stamp approval,
      • de bunks,
      • rubberstamping,
      • gave stamp approval,
      • gave the go-ahead,
      • gives high sign,
      • making sure,
      • up-hold,
      • giving the nod,
      • under-pinning,
      • thumbses up,
      • sub-scribe,
      • gives the goahead,
      • rubberstamps.

      decipher (verb)

      • de ciphers,
      • puzzled out,
      • puzzles out,
      • de-cipher,
      • dis entangles,
      • puzzling out,
      • de cipher,
      • trans late,
      • de-codes,
      • un riddle,
      • dopes out,
      • find key,
      • de code,
      • de duce,
      • un-riddles,
      • finding key,
      • de-ciphering,
      • de codes,
      • un riddles,
      • de-coding,
      • un riddled,
      • dis-entangling,
      • dis entangled,
      • un-riddling,
      • found the key,
      • dis-entangled,
      • de duces,
      • un riddling,
      • de-duces,
      • finds the key,
      • doping out,
      • trans lated,
      • dis-entangle,
      • dis entangle,
      • finding the key,
      • de-coded,
      • de coded,
      • un-riddled,
      • de ciphered,
      • brake down,
      • breaks down,
      • unriddles,
      • de-duce,
      • de-ciphered,
      • broke down,
      • trans-lated,
      • de-code,
      • un-riddle,
      • de ciphering,
      • doped out,
      • dis entangling,
      • de-ciphers,
      • de coding,
      • dis-entangles,
      • unriddled,
      • makes clear,
      • finds key,
      • trans-late,
      • found key.

      defend (verb)

      • be-friends,
      • put good word,
      • speaks up for,
      • stuck up for,
      • re-commend,
      • rid shotgun for,
      • sticking for,
      • be-friended,
      • put a good word,
      • thumping for,
      • stuck for,
      • rides shotgun for,
      • bore one out,
      • sticked up for,
      • coming to defense of,
      • speaking up for,
      • de-fend,
      • putting in good word,
      • sticks for,
      • re commending,
      • prove case,
      • de fends,
      • come defense of,
      • stands up for,
      • speaks for,
      • be-friend,
      • riding shotgun for,
      • de-fending,
      • apologizing for,
      • go bat for,
      • sticks up for,
      • covers for,
      • be-friending,
      • comes defense of,
      • re commended,
      • rode shotgun for,
      • proves a case,
      • be friended,
      • bearing one out,
      • proves case,
      • came defense of,
      • re commend,
      • puts in a good word,
      • putting a good word,
      • apologizes for,
      • comes to defense of,
      • says defense,
      • covering for,
      • putting in a good word,
      • spoke for,
      • said defense,
      • de-fended,
      • put in good word,
      • coming defense of,
      • says in defense,
      • proved a case,
      • thumps for,
      • spake for,
      • saying defense,
      • re-commends,
      • be friending,
      • sticking up for,
      • proved case,
      • puts a good word,
      • proving case,
      • de fended,
      • apologized for,
      • de-fends,
      • came to defense of,
      • puts good word,
      • saying in defense,
      • covered for,
      • spoke up for,
      • be friend,
      • putting good word,
      • beared one out,
      • proving a case,
      • de fend,
      • puts in good word,
      • stands by,
      • re-commending,
      • bare one out,
      • bears one out,
      • sticked for,
      • standing up for,
      • de fending,
      • spake up for,
      • say defense,
      • re commends,
      • thumped for,
      • said in defense,
      • re-commended.

      define (verb)

      • calling spade spade,
      • de-nominating,
      • de fine,
      • call spade a spade,
      • Re-present,
      • de-fines,
      • de-fining,
      • lays it out,
      • de scribed,
      • de-tailing,
      • de scribes,
      • de-scribe,
      • de fining,
      • de nominated,
      • re presents,
      • de lineated,
      • calls spade a spade,
      • de-scribed,
      • laid it out,
      • de-scribing,
      • de nominating,
      • de-lineate,
      • de scribe,
      • calls a spade spade,
      • nailed it down,
      • de-fined,
      • pre scribe,
      • call spade spade,
      • called spade a spade,
      • de-nominate,
      • calls a spade a spade,
      • re presenting,
      • de-tailed,
      • call a spade spade,
      • de-lineated,
      • de tailing,
      • de tailed,
      • pre scribing,
      • re presented,
      • laying it out,
      • called spade spade,
      • de-nominates,
      • pre-scribes,
      • de nominates,
      • de-fine,
      • de tail,
      • nailing down,
      • de lineate,
      • re-presents,
      • pre scribes,
      • de-scribes,
      • re-presented,
      • de fines,
      • de-tails,
      • called a spade spade,
      • de tails,
      • de nominate,
      • re-presenting,
      • pre-scribing,
      • pre-scribed,
      • de scribing,
      • de fined,
      • calls spade spade,
      • nailing it down,
      • de-nominated,
      • pre-scribe,
      • nails it down,
      • called a spade a spade,
      • de-tail,
      • nails down,
      • calling a spade spade,
      • re present.

      develop (verb)

      • un covers,
      • un-rolls,
      • fore-tell,
      • un rolling,
      • re-counting,
      • un coils,
      • re aching,
      • un covering,
      • un coil,
      • re ached,
      • un wound,
      • un-twisted,
      • un twisted,
      • un-coil,
      • un winds,
      • un twist,
      • fore tells,
      • un-rolling,
      • un-covering,
      • un roll,
      • un-winding,
      • un-twists,
      • un-covers,
      • un winding,
      • un furling,
      • un-rolled,
      • un-coiling,
      • re counts,
      • un-wind,
      • un furled,
      • un rolled,
      • pro-duces,
      • fore-telling,
      • un-cover,
      • un-furling,
      • un rolls,
      • un twists,
      • un-winds,
      • un coiled,
      • un covered,
      • un-coils,
      • un-roll,
      • un-furled,
      • re counting,
      • un-coiled,
      • re-counts,
      • fore tell,
      • fore-tells,
      • un coiling,
      • re-aching,
      • fore told,
      • un-wound,
      • pro duces,
      • fore telling,
      • pro duce,
      • re-counted,
      • un twisting,
      • un-twisting,
      • un wind,
      • fore-told,
      • re counted,
      • un-twist,
      • re-ached,
      • un cover.

      discourse (verb)

      • de-scant,
      • dilating upon,
      • dis-course,
      • de-scants,
      • dis-coursing,
      • gave meeting,
      • de-claims,
      • dis courses,
      • dis-sert,
      • giving a meeting,
      • dissertates,
      • de-claim,
      • dis coursed,
      • holds forth,
      • dis sert,
      • de scanting,
      • de bates,
      • dis-coursed,
      • de bate,
      • de-scanted,
      • dilates up on,
      • dilate up on,
      • de claims,
      • dilated up on,
      • de scant,
      • dis coursing,
      • de bating,
      • dis-courses,
      • de scanted,
      • de scants,
      • dilated upon,
      • dilates upon,
      • dilating up on,
      • dissertating,
      • disserts,
      • de-claimed,
      • de claim,
      • de-bates,
      • dis course,
      • de-scanting,
      • gives meeting,
      • de-bating,
      • de claimed,
      • de-bate,
      • de claiming,
      • disserting,
      • gave a meeting,
      • disserted,
      • gives a meeting,
      • de-bated,
      • giving meeting,
      • de-claiming,
      • dissertated,
      • de bated.

      discuss (verb)

      • discepting,
      • re-views,
      • compares notes,
      • exchanged views on,
      • dis cussed,
      • dis-cussed,
      • de liberating,
      • discepted,
      • dis cussing,
      • de liberates,
      • hashes over,
      • reasoning about,
      • tost around,
      • hashing over,
      • hashed over,
      • exchanging views on,
      • bouncing off,
      • re-viewed,
      • putting heads together,
      • discourses about,
      • thrashing out,
      • thrashed out,
      • re view,
      • groupthinks,
      • discoursed about,
      • re-view,
      • kicking about,
      • de-liberates,
      • thrashes out,
      • discepts,
      • discoursing about,
      • de liberated,
      • comparing notes,
      • puts heads together,
      • re viewing,
      • exchanges views on,
      • groupthinked,
      • tosses around,
      • dis-cept,
      • dis-cussing,
      • kicks about,
      • re views,
      • re viewed,
      • de-liberated,
      • kicked about,
      • dis cusses,
      • bounced off,
      • consulted with,
      • dis-cuss,
      • dis cept,
      • compared notes,
      • tossing around,
      • de liberate,
      • bounces off,
      • consults with,
      • dis cuss,
      • go in to,
      • reasons about,
      • groupthinking,
      • consulting with,
      • de-liberate,
      • reasoned about,
      • de-liberating,
      • dis-cusses.

      educate (verb)

      • co-ached,
      • co aching,
      • puts through the grind,
      • drum in to,
      • puts through grind,
      • co-aching,
      • puts hip,
      • putting through the grind,
      • putting hip,
      • putting through grind,
      • co ached.

      elaborate (verb)

      • be decking,
      • de vising,
      • be decked,
      • be-decks,
      • de-vising,
      • de-vised,
      • be-decking,
      • de vised,
      • be decks,
      • be-deck,
      • de-vise,
      • fleshes out,
      • de vise,
      • be deck,
      • be-decked.

      exculpate (verb)

      • dis missed,
      • wipes slate clean,
      • dis missing,
      • wiping slate clean,
      • dis-missing,
      • wiped slate clean,
      • dis-missed.

      excuse (verb)

      • made allowances for,
      • winks at,
      • pre text,
      • pre-text,
      • over look,
      • over-looks,
      • gives absolution,
      • making allowances for,
      • pled ignorance,
      • takes rap for,
      • exempts from,
      • giving absolution,
      • taking rap for,
      • grants amnesty,
      • pre-texts,
      • over-looking,
      • dispensed from,
      • over looked,
      • exempting from,
      • over-look,
      • winking at,
      • pretexting,
      • pleading ignorance,
      • dispenses from,
      • pleads ignorance,
      • gave absolution,
      • exempted from,
      • makes allowances for,
      • pleaded ignorance,
      • over looks,
      • dispensing from,
      • took rap for,
      • granting amnesty,
      • granted amnesty,
      • pre texts.

      expand (verb)

      • elaborate on or upon.

      explicate (verb)

      • enlarged upon,
      • ex plicates,
      • enlarges upon,
      • made plain,
      • giving the big picture,
      • ex plicated,
      • enucleates,
      • telling why,
      • making explicit,
      • ex plicate,
      • tells why,
      • enlarging up on,
      • ex-plicating,
      • made explicit,
      • gives the big picture,
      • enlarges up on,
      • told why,
      • makes explicit,
      • gave the big picture,
      • gave big picture,
      • enlarge up on,
      • gives big picture,
      • makes plain,
      • making plain,
      • ex-plicate,
      • ex plicating,
      • enlarged up on,
      • ex-plicates,
      • giving big picture,
      • give big picture,
      • ex-plicated,
      • enlarging upon,
      • Enucleating.

      expound (verb)

      • ex pounded,
      • ex pounds,
      • ex-pounds,
      • ex-pound,
      • sets forth,
      • ex pound,
      • ex-pounded,
      • ex pounding,
      • ex-pounding.

      gloss (verb)

      • be-lying,
      • be-lied,
      • dis-guises,
      • be lying,
      • smoothing over,
      • dis guises,
      • dis guising,
      • mis representing,
      • be lied,
      • deaconing,
      • mis represented,
      • softpedal,
      • dis-guising,
      • smoothed over,
      • deaconed,
      • mis-represented,
      • mis represent,
      • mis-represent,
      • mis-representing,
      • dis guised,
      • dis guise,
      • mis represents,
      • smooths over,
      • mis-represents,
      • dis-guise,
      • dis-guised.

      illuminate (verb)

      • giving insight,
      • up-lighted,
      • gives insight,
      • up lighting,
      • uplighted,
      • up-lights,
      • up lighted,
      • up-light,
      • shedding light on,
      • sheds light on,
      • up-lighting,
      • uplighting,
      • up lights,
      • gave insight,
      • up light.

      illustrate (verb)

      • de-picts,
      • showing and tell,
      • pointed up,
      • ex-posing,
      • brought home,
      • ex posed,
      • shows and tell,
      • in-stance,
      • points up,
      • limelighted,
      • showed tell,
      • pro claim,
      • in stance,
      • drew a picture,
      • ostends,
      • de-pict,
      • pro-claims,
      • pro-claiming,
      • draw picture,
      • ex-pose,
      • in-stances,
      • pro claims,
      • ex pose,
      • drew picture,
      • pro claiming,
      • de picts,
      • ostending,
      • drawing picture,
      • draws picture,
      • shows tell,
      • ex-posed,
      • in stances,
      • pro claimed,
      • show tell,
      • showing tell,
      • de pict,
      • bringing home,
      • limelighting,
      • drawing a picture,
      • showed and tell,
      • emblematizes,
      • gotten over,
      • draws a picture,
      • ostended.

      interpret (verb)

      • paraphrase,
      • translate,
      • transcribe,
      • condense,
      • annotate,
      • elucidate,
      • restate,
      • rephrase,
      • render,
      • decode,
      • analyze,
      • report.

      justify (verb)

      • does justice to,
      • wast answerable for,
      • spake in favor,
      • speaking favor,
      • doing justice to,
      • making allowances,
      • wert answerable for,
      • doeth justice to,
      • showed cause,
      • speaks in favor,
      • being answerable for,
      • did justice to,
      • spoke favor,
      • dost justice to,
      • speaking in favor,
      • makes allowances,
      • are answerable for,
      • doth justice to,
      • were answerable for,
      • made allowances,
      • was answerable for,
      • speaks favor,
      • shows cause,
      • argued for,
      • spake favor,
      • cop plea,
      • art answerable for,
      • doest justice to,
      • showing cause,
      • is answerable for,
      • argues for,
      • spoke in favor,
      • didst justice to,
      • am answerable for,
      • speak favor.

      make clear; give a reason for (verb)

      • diagram,
      • disclose,
      • manifest,
      • go into detail,
      • set right,
      • point out,
      • throw light upon,
      • bring out,
      • untangle,
      • put in plain English.

      mean (verb)

      • connote,
      • mean,
      • denote,
      • signify,
      • indicate,
      • intend,
      • imply.

      prove (verb)

      • de-clares,
      • hadst case,
      • showed once and for all,
      • makes evident,
      • showing clearly,
      • hath case,
      • has case,
      • hadst a case,
      • having a case,
      • de-clare,
      • hast case,
      • making evident,
      • de clares,
      • shows once for all,
      • hast a case,
      • showing once for all,
      • showed once for all,
      • haddest a case,
      • had a case,
      • haddest case,
      • showed clearly,
      • has a case,
      • made evident,
      • have case,
      • showing once and for all,
      • show once for all,
      • had case,
      • de clare,
      • shows clearly,
      • having case,
      • shows once and for all,
      • hath a case.

      read (verb)

      • de livering,
      • de-livers,
      • de liver,
      • de livered,
      • re stated,
      • de livers,
      • de-livered,
      • re state,
      • re-state,
      • de-liver,
      • re-stating,
      • de-livering,
      • re stating,
      • re states,
      • re-states,
      • re-stated.

      recite (verb)

      • re cite,
      • reels off,
      • re hearses,
      • gave account,
      • re porting,
      • giving report,
      • re tells,
      • reeling off,
      • re peat,
      • re-tell,
      • re-peat,
      • re cites,
      • re-lated,
      • re tell,
      • re-ported,
      • gives report,
      • gave verbal account,
      • re-plied,
      • re plied,
      • re plying,
      • reeled off,
      • giving a report,
      • re-telling,
      • re-hearses,
      • re-tells,
      • giving account,
      • gives a report,
      • re told,
      • re peats,
      • re-porting,
      • re telling,
      • re-cite,
      • gives verbal account,
      • re-plying,
      • re-hearse,
      • re citing,
      • re-told,
      • give report,
      • re-citing,
      • giving an account,
      • gave an account,
      • gave report,
      • re-cites,
      • gives account,
      • giving verbal account,
      • gives an account,
      • gave a report,
      • re late,
      • re cited,
      • re ported,
      • re-peats,
      • re-cited.

      record (verb)

      • re cord,
      • re cording,
      • re-cording,
      • re cords,
      • re-cords,
      • points to,
      • re-cord,
      • re corded,
      • re-corded.

      refine (verb)

      • re fined,
      • re-fined,
      • re fining,
      • re fines,
      • re-fine,
      • re-fines,
      • re-fining,
      • re fine.

      respond (verb)

      • deny,
      • react,
      • refute,
      • object.

      show (verb)

      • blows in,
      • testifying to,
      • is visible,
      • dis covered,
      • un-veils,
      • un-veiled,
      • wast visible,
      • dis-covered,
      • puts in appearance,
      • un veils,
      • dis-cover,
      • art visible,
      • makes the scene,
      • testifies to,
      • puts appearance,
      • makes scene,
      • show ones face,
      • was visible,
      • show face,
      • putting in appearance,
      • showing ones face,
      • made scene,
      • showed ones face,
      • shows one’s face,
      • blew in,
      • dis covers,
      • wert visible,
      • dis cover,
      • dis-covering,
      • shows face,
      • showing one face,
      • show one face,
      • putting appearance,
      • showing face,
      • showed one’s face,
      • dis-covers,
      • shows ones face,
      • un-veil,
      • were visible,
      • un veil,
      • make scene,
      • being visible,
      • testified to,
      • un veiling,
      • un-veiling,
      • showed one face,
      • showed face,
      • un veiled,
      • are visible,
      • put appearance,
      • making scene,
      • dis covering,
      • am visible,
      • shows one face,
      • showing one’s face.

      simplify (verb)

      • cuts frills,
      • getting the meat,
      • broke it down,
      • putting one straight,
      • hitting high spots,
      • cuts the frills,
      • gat to meat,
      • hit high spots,
      • cut frills,
      • dis involving,
      • gotten down basics,
      • cleaning it up,
      • got the meat,
      • breaks it down,
      • cutting the frills,
      • got to the meat,
      • gets the meat,
      • hitting the high spots,
      • letted sunlight in,
      • brake it down,
      • gat to the meat,
      • gets to meat,
      • dis-involves,
      • getting down basics,
      • puts in a nutshell,
      • gotten down to basics,
      • cleaning up,
      • making perfectly clear,
      • dis-involved,
      • gat down basics,
      • re-duce,
      • re-duces,
      • putting straight,
      • un scrambling,
      • dis-involving,
      • gat meat,
      • letted daylight in,
      • puts one straight,
      • getting to the meat,
      • getting to meat,
      • breaking it down,
      • putting a nutshell,
      • puts nutshell,
      • cutting frills,
      • putting nutshell,
      • makes perfectly clear,
      • un-scrambling,
      • hits high spots,
      • gets meat,
      • dis involve,
      • boiled down,
      • re duce,
      • gets down to basics,
      • gets to the meat,
      • un scrambled,
      • puts straight,
      • letting sunlight in,
      • un scrambles,
      • gotten to meat,
      • get meat,
      • letting daylight in,
      • get the meat,
      • got meat,
      • un scramble,
      • got to meat,
      • gat down to basics,
      • gotten the meat,
      • put a nutshell,
      • gotten to the meat,
      • cleaned it up,
      • un-scrambles,
      • cleans it up,
      • gat the meat,
      • boiling down,
      • re duces,
      • putting in a nutshell,
      • get down basics,
      • getting down to basics,
      • puts in nutshell,
      • hits the high spots,
      • un-scramble,
      • lets sunlight in,
      • lets daylight in,
      • made perfectly clear,
      • getting meat,
      • dis involves,
      • dis involved,
      • puts a nutshell,
      • un-scrambled,
      • got down basics,
      • putting in nutshell,
      • got down to basics,
      • gets down basics,
      • dis-involve,
      • gotten meat,
      • put nutshell.

      solve (verb)

      • get bottom,
      • figures out,
      • getting right,
      • get to bottom,
      • un locking,
      • un lock,
      • un-lock,
      • gets to bottom,
      • got to the bottom,
      • putting two two together,
      • gets the bottom,
      • gat the bottom,
      • got bottom,
      • un-locking,
      • got to bottom,
      • getting to the bottom,
      • gotten to the bottom,
      • un locks,
      • gotten the bottom,
      • gotten right,
      • make dent,
      • getting the bottom,
      • hitting up on,
      • making a dent,
      • gat to the bottom,
      • gets right,
      • un-locks,
      • get the bottom,
      • gets to the bottom,
      • makes a dent,
      • made a dent,
      • gotten to bottom,
      • gotten bottom,
      • hitting upon,
      • hits upon,
      • getting bottom,
      • making dent,
      • thinks out,
      • un-locked,
      • puts two and two together,
      • getting to bottom,
      • gat to bottom,
      • put two two together,
      • putting two and two together,
      • un locked,
      • hits up on,
      • hit up on,
      • puts two two together,
      • gat right,
      • got the bottom,
      • got right,
      • gets bottom,
      • gat bottom,
      • makes dent,
      • made dent.

      state (verb)

      • chiming in,
      • chimed in,
      • pro pounded,
      • pro pounds,
      • give blow by blow,
      • pro-pounding,
      • pro-pounds,
      • giving blow by blow,
      • chimes in,
      • gave blow by blow,
      • gives blow-by-blow,
      • giving blow-by-blow,
      • pro pounding,
      • pro-pound,
      • gives blow by blow,
      • gave blow-by-blow,
      • pro-pounded.

      teach (verb)

      • gave the facts,
      • giving instruction,
      • pounding in to,
      • polishing up,
      • pounds in to,
      • opened eyes,
      • giving the facts,
      • giving facts,
      • opens eyes,
      • gave lessons,
      • improves mind,
      • pound in to,
      • gave instruction,
      • pro-fesses,
      • improved mind,
      • pro fess,
      • pounding into,
      • gives lessons,
      • gives facts,
      • gives the facts,
      • pounded into,
      • giving lessons,
      • polishes up,
      • opening eyes,
      • pounds into,
      • pounded in to,
      • gives instruction,
      • gave facts,
      • pro fesses,
      • polished up,
      • pro-fess,
      • improving mind.

      tell (verb)

      • calls up on,
      • spitting out,
      • spits out,
      • lets know,
      • keeps posted,
      • re-quired,
      • re quired,
      • lays open,
      • re quire,
      • letting know,
      • puts before,
      • left word,
      • spat it out,
      • letted know,
      • opens up,
      • spitting it out,
      • leaves word,
      • spitted it out,
      • putting before,
      • spat out,
      • calling up on,
      • re-quires,
      • call up on,
      • spitted out,
      • re quires,
      • keeping posted,
      • re quiring,
      • spits it out,
      • called up on,
      • leaving word,
      • cluing in,
      • re-quire,
      • calling upon,
      • clues in,
      • re-quiring,
      • leaved word.

      treat (verb)

      • writing about,
      • talks about,
      • speaks about,
      • spake about,
      • writ about,
      • discoursing on,
      • talking about,
      • writes about,
      • discoursed on,
      • speaking about,
      • discourses on,
      • spoke about,
      • wrote about.

      understand (verb)

      • gat the hang of,
      • wast with it,
      • making sense of,
      • under stood,
      • getting the picture,
      • dis-cern,
      • wast aware,
      • gat the point,
      • am conscious of,
      • get picture,
      • get idea,
      • were conscious of,
      • got point,
      • get hang of,
      • has knowledge of,
      • getting point,
      • re cognized,
      • getting hang of,
      • get point,
      • gotten idea,
      • got hang of,
      • catches on,
      • hath knowledge of,
      • gat the idea,
      • got the point,
      • getting picture,
      • getting the idea,
      • takes meaning,
      • is conscious of,
      • wert aware,
      • art with it,
      • am with it,
      • gat hang of,
      • gets the idea,
      • got the idea,
      • gotten the picture,
      • re-cognizing,
      • getting the hang of,
      • taking meaning,
      • gotten point,
      • gotten picture,
      • gotten hang of,
      • under-stand,
      • got idea,
      • gets the hang of,
      • gets the picture,
      • took meaning,
      • was with it,
      • got the hang of,
      • was conscious of,
      • dis cern,
      • haddest knowledge of,
      • catching on,
      • gets the point,
      • getting the point,
      • under stand,
      • re-cognized,
      • getting idea,
      • under stands,
      • under-stood,
      • gat point,
      • under-stands,
      • gotten the idea,
      • gotten the point,
      • gets idea,
      • got picture,
      • hadst knowledge of,
      • am aware,
      • made sense of,
      • gotten the hang of,
      • is with it,
      • gat idea,
      • were with it,
      • wert conscious of,
      • gat the picture,
      • got the picture,
      • having knowledge of,
      • is aware,
      • were aware,
      • re cognize,
      • under-standing,
      • gets point,
      • had knowledge of,
      • being with it,
      • gets hang of,
      • gets picture,
      • gat picture,
      • makes sense of,
      • being aware,
      • under standing,
      • are conscious of,
      • art aware,
      • are with it,
      • re cognizes,
      • art conscious of,
      • hast knowledge of,
      • being conscious of,
      • are aware,
      • re cognizing,
      • wert with it,
      • wast conscious of.

      unfold (verb)

      • un folded,
      • un-fold,
      • un-folds,
      • un folding,
      • un folds,
      • un-folded,
      • un-folding,
      • un fold.

      unravel (verb)

      • un-ravelled,
      • un-ravel,
      • un ravelling,
      • un raveling,
      • un-raveled,
      • un raveled,
      • un ravels,
      • un-raveling,
      • sorts out,
      • un ravelled,
      • un ravel,
      • un-ravels,
      • un-ravelling.

      untangle (verb)

      • dis encumbering,
      • dis embroil,
      • un-wove,
      • put order,
      • puts order,
      • un snarl,
      • dis-embroiling,
      • un snarled,
      • un woven,
      • dis-encumber,
      • un wove,
      • putting order,
      • un-weave,
      • un weaving,
      • un weave,
      • dis encumber,
      • un tangled,
      • un-tangling,
      • dis embroiling,
      • dis embroils,
      • un-tangle,
      • un weaves,
      • un-woven,
      • unweaved,
      • dis-encumbered,
      • unweaves,
      • disembroils,
      • dis-embroil,
      • un-tangles,
      • un tangles,
      • un-snarled,
      • dis-encumbers,
      • un-weaving,
      • un-snarling,
      • un tangle,
      • dis-encumbering,
      • un-snarls,
      • un-snarl,
      • dis embroiled,
      • un tangling,
      • un-weaves,
      • unwove,
      • dis encumbered,
      • un-tangled,
      • un weaved,
      • un snarls,
      • un snarling,
      • dis-embroiled,
      • dis encumbers,
      • un-weaved,
      • dis-embroils.

      warrant (verb)

      • under write,
      • stands behind,
      • pro-mises,
      • standing behind,
      • in sure,
      • gives grounds for,
      • de legate,
      • takes oath,
      • under-wrote,
      • under-writing,
      • took oath,
      • de-legates,
      • under take,
      • under writing,
      • under wrote,
      • under-write,
      • pro-mise,
      • taking oath,
      • under writes,
      • under-written,
      • under-writes,
      • under taken,
      • de legates,
      • pro mise,
      • pro mises,
      • giving grounds for,
      • gave grounds for,
      • under written,
      • under takes,
      • under took,
      • under-takes,
      • under-taking,
      • taking an oath,
      • in-sure,
      • under taking,
      • under-taken,
      • de-legate,
      • takes an oath,
      • stood behind.
    • Other synonyms:

      • demystify,
      • get through to,
      • decipherable,
      • elucidative,
      • credit to,
      • put down to,
      • decipherment,
      • disambiguate,
      • interpretable,
      • specify,
      • impress on,
      • Explanative,
      • Interline,
      • Hermeneutical,
      • set out,
      • mystical,
      • put across,
      • expositive,
      • reword,
      • Because,
      • That,
      • teach,
      • oversimplify,
      • Explicative,
      • get across,
      • exegetic,
      • interpretive,
      • take through,
      • arcane,
      • illustratable,
      • speak for itself,
      • enucleation,
      • cabalistic,
      • mystifying,
      • talk through,
      • interpretative,
      • stake out,
      • rationalization,
      • unexplainable,
      • Hermeneutic.

      • unaccountable,
      • enigmatic,
      • cryptic,
      • elucidation,
      • mystic,
      • explicable,
      • illumine,
      • legitimize,
      • inexplicable,
      • dilate,
      • explication,
      • explanatory,
      • nay,
      • pinpoint,
      • answer to,
      • unpack,
      • illustrative,
      • expository,
      • besides,
      • puzzling,
      • expatiate,
      • demonstrate,
      • clarification,
      • run over.

      • clear up,
      • amplify,
      • enlarge,
      • exegesis,
      • as,
      • interpretation,
      • illustration,
      • Since,
      • justification,
      • explanation,
      • pretext,
      • chalk something up,
      • occult,
      • illumination,
      • rationale,
      • explainable,
      • expand,
      • construction.

      • exposition,
      • put,
      • go into,
      • witness,
      • plea,
      • precisely,
      • mysterious.

      • accountable.

      advise

      • mentor.

      answer

      • Responding,
      • returning,
      • echoes,
      • talk back,
      • Parried,
      • counter-claim,
      • be in touch,
      • shoot back,
      • counterclaimed,
      • answered back,
      • field the question,
      • talking back,
      • counterclaiming,
      • back at you,
      • give a snappy comeback,
      • get back to,
      • answer back,
      • counterclaims.

      answer for

      • atone for,
      • take the blame for,
      • is responsible for,
      • paid for,
      • accept the responsibility for,
      • atoned for,
      • be responsible for,
      • pay for.

      clear up

      • clear the air.

      defend

      • stood up for,
      • stick up for,
      • be friends,
      • apologize for,
      • bear one out,
      • stood by,
      • speaking for,
      • put in a good word,
      • prove a case,
      • speak for,
      • thump for,
      • come to defense of,
      • speak up for,
      • cover for,
      • ride shotgun for,
      • standing by,
      • stand up for,
      • say in defense,
      • stand by,
      • stick for.

      discourse

      • harangue,
      • Dissert,
      • Lectured,
      • dilate upon,
      • give meeting,
      • hold forth,
      • held forth,
      • dissertate,
      • holding forth,
      • give a meeting.

      forgive

      • exculpate.

      illustrate

      • exemplify.

      interpret

      • Imaged,
      • reenact,
      • made of,
      • reenacted,
      • re-enact,
      • reenacting,
      • make of,
      • throw light on,
      • making of,
      • re-enacts,
      • imaging.

      Other relevant words:

      • brief,
      • Implying,
      • enciphered,
      • kick about,
      • caught on,
      • unlock,
      • bring home,
      • warrants,
      • interpose,
      • commentate,
      • soliloquize,
      • Formalizing,
      • untwisting,
      • implicate oneself,
      • unfurls,
      • plead ignorance,
      • setting free,
      • size up,
      • sizing up,
      • make allowances,
      • covering up,
      • Educating,
      • give rundown,
      • put before,
      • flesh out,
      • uncoils,
      • put hip,
      • owning up,
      • smooth over,
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      • Initiating,
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      • winked at,
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      • do justice to,
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      • uncoiled,
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      • double-checks,
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      • Circumstantiated,
      • calling spade a spade,
      • slicked,
      • exchange views on,
      • show one’s face,
      • toss around,
      • put heads together,
      • put two and two together,
      • Amnestied,
      • hit upon,
      • tip off,
      • pointed out,
      • talked about,
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      • passed on,
      • Re-mark,
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      • blow in,
      • formalize,
      • parrot,
      • passing on,
      • compare notes,
      • reflects,
      • clear,
      • rubber stamped,
      • kenning,
      • simplify,
      • make plain,
      • clue in,
      • remark,
      • sort out,
      • understand,
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      • hash over,
      • tipped off,
      • set forth,
      • animadvert,
      • enlarge upon,
      • oriented,
      • Pardoned,
      • warrant,
      • dope out,
      • Animadverted,
      • make evident,
      • Whited,
      • have knowledge of,
      • prove,
      • Spilt,
      • inform,
      • decipher,
      • Altercating,
      • fleshing out,
      • be with it,
      • cover up,
      • excuse,
      • Guarantied,
      • give absolution,
      • spit it out,
      • develop,
      • made clear,
      • enciphers,
      • expound,
      • double-check,
      • setting forth,
      • recite,
      • Nurtured,
      • grant amnesty,
      • Animadverting,
      • kent,
      • altercates,
      • solve,
      • figured out,
      • Allegorizing,
      • commentates,
      • discourse,
      • Soliloquized,
      • Unriddle,
      • set free,
      • stand behind,
      • spell out,
      • come clean,
      • pass on,
      • lay it out,
      • mention,
      • dispense from,
      • Mooting,
      • get to the bottom,
      • make good,
      • sorting out,
      • define,
      • Justifying,
      • opened up,
      • proven,
      • illuminate,
      • lapped up,
      • thinking out,
      • formalized,
      • owns up,
      • illustrate,
      • rubber-stamps,
      • figure out,
      • educate,
      • allegorizes,
      • call a spade a spade,
      • highlights,
      • whitewashed,
      • recapitulate,
      • record,
      • altercate,
      • adds up,
      • filled in,
      • get right,
      • lets go,
      • shed light on,
      • pretexted,
      • uncoiling,
      • bounce off,
      • tipping off,
      • soft pedal,
      • releasing,
      • point up,
      • untwisted,
      • defog,
      • blowing in,
      • let in on,
      • covered up,
      • tolerates,
      • uplight,
      • take meaning,
      • nail it down,
      • let off the hook,
      • touch upon,
      • wink at,
      • Ostend,
      • retell,
      • made the scene,
      • show the ropes,
      • show once and for all,
      • made sure,
      • soliloquizes,
      • confirm,
      • put through grind,
      • Told,
      • footnoted,
      • Amnestying,
      • give the go-ahead,
      • rubber-stamp,
      • put in appearance,
      • Slicking,
      • get the picture,
      • Whites,
      • state,
      • signing on,
      • lay open,
      • savvied,
      • unfold,
      • sorted out,
      • tell why,
      • comment,
      • spelled out,
      • show cause,
      • thought out,
      • Treating,
      • find innocent,
      • explicate,
      • account for,
      • Soliloquizing,
      • Disciplining,
      • give facts,
      • tell,
      • spieling,
      • unfurled,
      • give stamp of approval,
      • wipe slate clean,
      • animadverts,
      • exemplifies,
      • untwist,
      • Privileging,
      • update,
      • initiate,
      • ensures,
      • commentating,
      • speak about,
      • write about,
      • Enucleated,
      • discourse on,
      • opening up,
      • keep posted,
      • get the point,
      • discourse about,
      • laying open,
      • sets free,
      • double checked,
      • argue,
      • Sleeked,
      • call upon,
      • ventilate,
      • fleshed out,
      • confess all,
      • whiting,
      • find the key,
      • knock around,
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      • unravel,
      • be aware,
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      • break down,
      • retelling,
      • passes on,
      • disciplined,
      • let go,
      • give high sign,
      • speak in favor,
      • show,
      • double-checked,
      • alibied,
      • let know,
      • draw a picture,
      • calls upon,
      • footnoting,
      • clued in,
      • Discept,
      • opine,
      • illume,
      • slicks,
      • alibiing,
      • think out,
      • Typified,
      • show the lay of the land,
      • make a dent,
      • exempt from,
      • show clearly,
      • double checking,
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      • argue for,
      • sleeks,
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      • get the hang of,
      • Guarantying,
      • Disculpate,
      • talk about,
      • be visible,
      • labeled,
      • labelled,
      • ensure,
      • take oath,
      • incriminate oneself,
      • called upon,
      • emancipate,
      • make allowances for,
      • owned up,
      • making clear,
      • allegorize,
      • double check,
      • get the idea,
      • give verbal account,
      • rubberstamp,
      • signed on,
      • answer,
      • pointing out,
      • under pin,
      • elaborate,
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      • highlighted,
      • spieled,
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      • subscribe,
      • Altercated,
      • untwists,
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      • reason about,
      • making good,
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      • took an oath,
      • interpret,
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      • illuminating,
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      • covers up,
      • tips off,
      • calling a spade a spade,
      • commentated,
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      • uncoil,
      • unriddling,
      • savvying,
      • catch on,
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      • trialing,
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      • enucleate,
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      • interject,
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      • Emblematizing,
      • groupthink,
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      • own up,
      • give account,
      • sympathize,
      • Emblematize,
      • give an account,
      • tossed around,
      • Evolved,
      • answer for,
      • put through the grind,
      • make sure,
      • open up,
      • be answerable for,
      • make the scene,
      • Labelling,
      • Sleeking,
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      • consult with,
      • testify to,
      • give go-ahead,
      • give green light,
      • Mooted,
      • get together,
      • kept posted,
      • letting go.

      record

      • point to,
      • pointed to,
      • pointing to.

      reveal

      • making known,
      • breaking news,
      • let slip,
      • let fall,
      • get out of system,
      • making public,
      • break the news,
      • let cat out of bag,
      • put cards on table,
      • give the low-down,
      • bring out into open,
      • let out,
      • made known,
      • make known,
      • letting out,
      • made public,
      • give out,
      • let cat out of the bag,
      • make public.

      simplify

      • unscramble,
      • streamline,
      • cleaned up,
      • clean up,
      • put one straight,
      • put in a nutshell,
      • boils down,
      • get to meat,
      • boil down,
      • streamlining,
      • get down to basics,
      • unscrambles,
      • cleans up,
      • put in nutshell,
      • unscrambled,
      • let daylight in,
      • cut the frills,
      • hit the high spots,
      • let sunlight in,
      • put straight,
      • streamlines,
      • get to the meat,
      • unscrambling,
      • make perfectly clear,
      • break it down,
      • clean it up.

      teach

      • polish up,
      • improve mind,
      • pound into,
      • open eyes,
      • give lessons,
      • give the facts,
      • give instruction.

      untangle

      • unwoven,
      • putting in order,
      • puts in order,
      • unsnarled,
      • unsnarl,
      • unweave,
      • unweaving,
      • Disembroiling,
      • Disembroiled,
      • unsnarling,
      • disembroil,
      • unsnarls.

    How to use «Explain» in context?

    The word «explain» comes from the Latin explicare, meaning to unfold or unfold something. This verb is used to describe what someone or something is, or how it works. As a verb, explain means to provide an interpretation of something, usually to someone who is not familiar with it. When it is used as a noun, explain means a paper or speech that provides an account of something, typically one that clarifies or gives additional details.

    Paraphrases for Explain:

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    • Equivalence

      • Adjective
        explains.
      • Proper noun, singular
        Explaining, explains.
    • Independent

      • Coordinating conjunction
        discuss.
      • Preposition or subordinating conjunction
        discuss.
      • Adjective
        attributable, discuss, explicit.
      • Proper noun, singular
        Miles.
      • Adverb
        exactly.
      • Verb, past tense
        clarified, details, elaborated, Accounted, Attributed, Did, Replied.
      • Verb, past participle
        clarified, dictated, driven, impacted, justified, motivated, owed, rooted, Accounted, Ascribed, Attributed, Caused, Influenced, Necessitated, Resulted, Told, Contributed, Prevailed, Prompted, summarized, spelled.
      • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
        are, clarified, declare, discuss, expose, express, give, illustrate, provide, reflect, say, tell, Gave.
      • Verb, 3rd person singular present
        outlines, accounts, describes, suggests, reasons, provides, says.
      • Verb, base form
        affirm, announce, answer, ascertain, characterize, comprehend, convey, convince, decipher, declare, delineate, description, disclose, discuss, educate, enlighten, expand, expose, express, give, ground, highlight, illuminate, illustrate, interesting, investigate, justify, lay, motivate, proclaim, provide, rationalize, reflect, say, spell, substantiate, tell, underlie, underpin, types.
    • Other Related

      • Proper noun, singular
        explanation, Explained, explanations.
      • Noun, singular or mass
        explanation.
      • Verb, base form
        articulate, declaration, explanation, interpret.

    Homophones for Explain:

    • ecballium.

    Hypernym for Explain:

    • v.

      • communication
        clarify, elucidate, Rede, clear up, comment, interpret, naturalize, account for.

    Hyponym for Explain:

    • v.

      • communication
        inform, state, tell, say.

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    1. explainverb

      To give a sufficiently detailed report about (a) the reason for something, about why something happened, about a causal chain of events; about (b) how something works, about how elements in a system interact; about (c) how to do something, about the steps which need to be accomplished in order to accomplish a certain goal.

      Synonyms:
      expound, elaborate

    Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.8 / 4 votes

    1. explain

      Synonyms:
      expound, teach, illustrate, clear up, interpret, elucidate, decipher

      Antonyms:
      mystify, obscure, darken, bewilder, misinterpret

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    1. explain, explicateverb

      make plain and comprehensible

      «He explained the laws of physics to his students»

      Synonyms:
      excuse, explicate, formulate, develop

    2. explainverb

      define

      «The committee explained their plan for fund-raising to the Dean»

      Synonyms:
      excuse, explicate

    3. excuse, explainverb

      serve as a reason or cause or justification of

      «Your need to sleep late does not excuse your late arrival at work»; «Her recent divorce may explain her reluctance to date again»

      Synonyms:
      relieve, rationalize, explicate, let off, beg off, excuse, pardon, condone, apologise, exempt, rationalise, apologize, justify

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    1. explainverb

      Synonyms:
      interpret, elucidate, expound, illustrate, unfold, solve, ECLAIRCIZE, clear up, make plain, throw light upon

    2. explainverb

      Synonyms:
      account, give a reason, give an explanation

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    1. List of paraphrases for «explain»:

      explaining, explained, explains, clarify, explanation, declare, describe, justify, interpret, tell, elaborate, indicate

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    How to use explain in a sentence?

    1. Amy Jeffress:

      We asked the committee staff to explain the scope of the investigation and provide sufficient notice that would allow her to prepare, which are normal conditions for congressional committees, but these committees have not followed the normal process, the FBI has agreed to provide Lisa with her notes and other documents to allow her to prepare, but they have not provided those documents to date, so we are still waiting to work out a reasonable date for her interview. Lisa has cooperated voluntarily with another congressional committee that had no objection to explaining the scope of The FBI investigation or providing sufficient notice for her interview. Lisa also cooperated fully with the OIG investigation and appeared voluntarily for multiple interviews, including after she left The FBI.

    2. Israel Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz:

      We hope to encourage other companies. This is the main reason for my visit to Houston. To explain to them the potential and attractiveness of investing in Israel.

    3. David Leonhardt:

      Some audiences have been vaccine-hesitant, i find when the true/full story of how the vaccines were developed is told, and I explain that they resulted from years of courageous/revolutionary work and that nothing was rushed, many are reassured and more willing to roll up their sleeves.

    4. Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron:

      There is no need for self-flagellation but the responsibility of every political leader is to understand and to explain, not to excuse, and to make sure it does not happen again, to understand is not to excuse or justify.

    5. Judi Dench:

      I don`t like reading scripts very much. I like it better for someone to just explain to me what it is about this story.


    Translations for explain

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    • شرح, يشرح, فسرArabic
    • обяснявам, давам обясненияBulgarian
    • explicarCatalan, Valencian
    • vysvětlitCzech
    • erklären, erläuternGerman
    • εξηγώGreek
    • klarigiEsperanto
    • explicarSpanish
    • توضیح دادنPersian
    • selittää, selostaaFinnish
    • expliquer, Explique, justifierFrench
    • explicarGalician
    • הסבירHebrew
    • समझानाHindi
    • magyarázHungarian
    • explikarIdo
    • spiegare, illustrare, chiosareItalian
    • להסבירHebrew
    • 説明Japanese
    • 변명하다, 설명하다Korean
    • şayesandin, derbirin, saloxandin, vegotinKurdish
    • explicōLatin
    • skaidrotLatvian
    • whakamārama, whakamahukiMāori
    • uitleggen, verklarenDutch
    • explicarOccitan
    • explanar, explicarPortuguese
    • alayrichiyQuechua
    • explicaRomanian
    • объяснить, объяснять, оправдывать, оправдатьRussian
    • обја̀снити, objàsniti, rasvijetliti, расвијетлитиSerbo-Croatian
    • pojasnitiSlovene
    • förklaraSwedish
    • వివరించుTelugu
    • ชี้แจง, อธิบายThai
    • пояснитиUkrainian
    • اس بات کی و, سمجھاناUrdu
    • giải thíchVietnamese

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    1

    as in to clarify

    to make plain or understandable

    a pamphlet that explains the medical procedure in language that any layperson can understand


    2

    as in to justify

    to give the reason for or cause of

    can you explain your very odd behavior at the wedding reception?

    Synonym Chooser

    How does the verb explain contrast with its synonyms?

    Some common synonyms of explain are elucidate, explicate, expound, and interpret. While all these words mean «to make something clear or understandable,» explain implies a making plain or intelligible what is not immediately obvious or entirely known.

    In what contexts can elucidate take the place of explain?

    While in some cases nearly identical to explain, elucidate stresses the throwing of light upon as by offering details or motives previously unclear or only implicit.

    elucidate an obscure passage

    When is it sensible to use explicate instead of explain?

    The words explicate and explain can be used in similar contexts, but explicate adds the idea of a developed or detailed analysis.

    When is expound a more appropriate choice than explain?

    Although the words expound and explain have much in common, expound implies a careful often elaborate explanation.

    expounding a scientific theory

    How are the words interpret and explain related?

    Interpret adds to explain the need for imagination or sympathy or special knowledge in dealing with something.

    interpreting a work of art

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