explain
Usage
What are other ways to say explain?
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.
Example Sentences
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Scientists know that implicit and explicit learning engage different brain systems, and this distinction may help explain why only speed training was associated with lower dementia risk in this analysis.
From Science Daily
Sargeant explained to the Venezuelan leader the corruption and inefficiencies that kept the industry from growing.
"I never, ever wake up feeling refreshed. I wake up exhausted every day, and it gets worse as the day goes on," he explains.
From BBC
"The truth is economic gravity is reality," she added, explaining that half the UK's trade was with the EU, almost as much as with "the whole of the rest of the world combined".
From BBC
"It's very low on the Richter scale of unlawfulness and there may be a public interest," he explained.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
