Usually means: Clarify meaning through detailed description.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word explain:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. explain: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. explain: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. explain: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. explain: Collins English Dictionary
  5. explain: Vocabulary.com
  6. Explain, explain: Wordnik
  7. explain: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. explain: Wiktionary
  9. explain: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. explain: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. explain: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Explain, explain: Dictionary.com
  13. explain: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Explain: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Explain: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. explain: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. explain: Rhymezone
  18. explain: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. explain: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. explain: Free Dictionary
  21. explain: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. explain: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. explain: Mnemonic Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. explain: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. explain: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. explain: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Explain: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of.
verb:  (transitive) To give a valid excuse for past behavior.
verb:  (obsolete) To make flat, smooth out.
verb:  (obsolete) To unfold or make visible.
verb:  (intransitive) To make something plain or intelligible.

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