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What does explain mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word explain? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of.
  2. To give a valid excuse for some past behavior.
  3. (obsolete) To make flat, smooth out.
  4. (obsolete) To unfold or make visible.
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The monomyth is, broadly speaking, a blueprint of sorts that can be used to explain and map heroes' journeys across world cultures.
It provides an estimate of how much precipitation or temperature change must be invoked to explain the current net ablation of the glacier.
If somebody should ask you what true zen is, it´s not necessary to explain using words.
There's nothing, though, that would necessarily explain his aberrant fascination with dead animals.
There was little in Georgian or Abkhaz national mythology to explain the depth of hatred that arose during the conflict there.
Different versions of endosymbiotic theory have been presented in the literature to explain the origin of eukaryotes and their mitochondria.

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