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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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There's nothing, though, that would necessarily explain his aberrant fascination with dead animals.
Forgive me for my wariness of words and theories that explain the healer's art.
The monomyth is, broadly speaking, a blueprint of sorts that can be used to explain and map heroes' journeys across world cultures.
But instead of producing the figures to explain why it wouldn't, Mr. Darrell waffled incomprehensibly about students moving schools.
Clearly, Orr wants to believe that money and material advantage explain all.
Different versions of endosymbiotic theory have been presented in the literature to explain the origin of eukaryotes and their mitochondria.

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