EXPLAIN definition: to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible. See examples of explain used in a sentence.

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 meaning: 1. to make something clear or easy to understand by describing or giving information about it: 2…. Learn more.

Definition of explain verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

Explain, elucidate, expound, interpret imply making the meaning of something clear or understandable. To explain is to make plain, clear, or intelligible something that is not known …

Synonyms: explain, elucidate, explicate, interpret, construe These verbs mean to make the nature or meaning of something understandable. Explain is the most widely applicable: The professor …

If you explain, or explain something that has happened, you give people reasons for it, especially in an attempt to justify it. "Let me explain, sir."—"Don't tell me about it. I don't want to know." …