[
US
/ɪksˈpɫeɪn/
]
[ UK /ɛksplˈeɪn/ ]
[ UK /ɛksplˈeɪn/ ]
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 -
define
The committee explained their plan for fund-raising to the Dean -
make plain and comprehensible
He explained the laws of physics to his students
How To Use explain In A Sentence
- We love our king, we just don't love the way he abuses our money," a Swazi friend once explained to me. How long can Swaziland resist reform?
- ‘In big companies, there can be a lot of layers that inhibit the creative process,’ she says, explaining her decision to strike out on her own.
- To explain this, they hypothesise that galaxies must contain a great deal of missing matter which cannot be detected.
- Her mother has written to him explaining the situation but has not heard back.
- You come along with me and I'll introduce you (he's not what you call a refined sort of feller, yer know, 'he explained forbearingly,' but still we've always been friends in a way); you can't stop? The Giant's Robe
- Thereafter thought, weighing the truth or falseness of the notion, determines what is true: and this explains the Greek word for thought, dianoia, which is derived from dianoein, meaning to think and discriminate. NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
- That's when I noticed the little sticker on the window explaining the purpose of the ‘Child Safety Lock’.
- It explains why some people must have a full eight hours' kip while others get away with half that. The Sun
- And, as I have patiently had to explain to costumers in shows I have directed, footwear is very important for the actor.
- What I really liked, from my white boy point-of-view, was Eddie taking a brief second to explain his continual usage of the N-word: because its power is lessened the more it's used.
