Explains Synonyms and Antonyms

Serve as a reason or cause or justification of
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. rationalizes
  2. excuses
  3. justifies
To find a solution for
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. unravels
  2. manifests
  3. interprets
  4. explicates
  5. elucidates
  6. resolves
  7. solves
  8. annotates
  9. simplifies
  10. unfolds
  11. rationalizes
  12. justifies
  13. defines
  14. construes
  15. paraphrases
  16. reveals
  17. translates
  18. illustrates
  19. deciphers
  20. emphasizes
  21. articulates
  22. rephrases
  23. restates
  24. expounds
  25. describes
  26. untangles
  27. expatiates
  28. illuminates
  29. expands
  30. disentangles
  31. clarifies
  32. elaborates
  33. renders
  34. dilates
  35. reads
  36. refines
  37. tells
  38. demonstrates
  39. discloses
  40. teaches
  41. amplifies
Antonyms:
  1. confounds
  2. confuses
  3. puzzles

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Explains Sentence Examples

  • Giustiniani explains that he had to make proposals to the cardinal before he broached them to Henry, lest Wolsey "should resent the precedence conceded to the king."

  • That also explains why you eat so much?

  • It explains, too, Panin's strange tenderness towards Poland.

  • The fourth book explains the divinity of the Scriptures, and deduces rules for their interpretation.

  • The dead, who returned to the Great Mother, were objects of a sort of heroworship. This early nature-cult explains many anomalous features of Hellenic religion, especially in the cults of Artemis and Aphrodite.

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