Synonym: answer, clarify, demonstrate, illustrate, show, simplify, solve. Antonym: obscure. Similar words: complaint, plaintiff, explanation, complain about, explode, explore, exploit, explicit. Meaning: [ɪk'spleɪn] 
v. 1. make plain and comprehensible 2. define 3. serve as a reason or cause or justification of.
v. 1. make plain and comprehensible 2. define 3. serve as a reason or cause or justification of. 
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181. I had to explain the problem to her several times before the penny finally dropped.
182. The judge clapped her into prison before she had had time to explain.
183. The great thing about Alex is that he's always willing to explain things to you.
184. The doctor, not wishing to make her nervous, did not fully explain the seriousness of her condition.
184. Wish you can benefit from our online sentence dictionary and make progress day by day!
185. I'm sorry, I don't understand. Can you explain that again?
186. The note was to remind him about something he had to explain to one of his students.
187. 'Let me explain, sir.'--'Don't tell me about it. I don't want to know.'.
188. All the time he was painfully conscious of how hard it was going to be to explain.
189. She had to explain her behaviour to her perplexed supporters.
190. Any halfway decent teacher should be able to explain the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs.
More similar words: complaint, plaintiff, explanation, complain about, explode, explore, exploit, explicit, explosion, exploration, maintain, claim, proclaim, expand, expert, expose, expect, export, expense, play, plan, expertise, expected, exposure, plant, plate, place, experience, expansion, experiment.