EXPLAIN

• (verb) 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 : excuse

• (verb) make plain and comprehensible

  "He explained the laws of physics to his students"

  synonyms : explicate

• (verb) define

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

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