Definitions for explains

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explains ex·plain

Spelling: [ik-spleyn]

IPA: /ɪkˈspleɪn/

Explains is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 382 anagrams from letters in explains (aeilnpsx).

Definitions for explains

Verb phrases

1. explain away, to diminish or nullify the significance of by explanation: to dispel (doubts, difficulties, etc.) by explanation:

verb (used with object)

1. to make plain or clear; render understandable or intelligible: Synonyms: explicate. Antonyms: confuse.
2. to make known in detail:
3. to assign a meaning to; interpret:
4. to make clear the cause or reason of; account for: Synonyms: justify.

verb (used without object)

1. to give an explanation.

Origin of explains

1375-1425; late Middle English explanen Latin explānāre to smooth out, make intelligible, spread out on flat surface. See ex-¹, plane

Examples for explains

The problem is, how do you find a movie narrative that can explain genius, British or otherwise?

I asked her to explain more about these “private customers.”

After the curtain calls, Christopher comes back to explain a complicated math problem.

But before you start to read let me explain what I intend to do.

Nothin' you could understand; you need a mother to explain things to you.

Don't mind him, dad—I know all about it, I tell you—I'll explain later to you.

Nothing can be explained without the language to explain it.

Lucas spoke to him in Flemish to explain his own return with the English prentice.

A grand juror in the Ferguson case is suing to be able to explain exactly what went down in the courtroom.

"I'll have to explain," she smiled as she introduced him to Evelyn.