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What is the verb for explanation?

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explain
  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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  6. Examples:
    1. “The instruction manual will explain how you can use the microwave.”
      “How do you explain being seen at the bar when you were supposed to be at home?”
      “The instruction manual will explain how you can use the microwave.”
explicate
explaining
explicates
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of explicate
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Sheriff explicates the metaphor of fire as it was used to connect nymphomania to the passions, including enthusiasm.”
      “He both re-emphasizes and thoroughly explicates the details of this approach.”
      “The text explicates Cohen's work in a thoughtful and non-confrontational manner.”
explains
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of explain
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Before it was a cathedral, back in medieval times, it was an abbey, Gerrie explains.”
      “So, it doesn't excuse the behavior but I think it explains the atmosphere that gives rise to the aberrant behavior.”
      “He explains the rich spiritual tradition of prayer at the close of day, and provides an inspiring meditation on the texts.”
explaineth
  1. (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of explain
explicated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of explicate
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Her light-hearted vignettes are woven in between clearly explicated theories about laws of possibility.”
      “Within this framework, Barnave's revolutionary political ideas will be explicated.”
      “The researcher's race, background, and research assumptions were explicated in a research journal providing readers with a context for critique.”
explainest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of explain
explaint
  1. (obsolete or dialectal) simple past tense and past participle of explain
explained
  1. simple past tense and past participle of explain
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He explained his absence by telling all concerned he was going into hospital for three weeks for an operation.”
      “She explained she was booked into the hotel because of its four star status.”
      “If everything is explained to us, from A to Z, then even an idiot can grasp it.”
explicating
  1. present participle of explicate
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In this passage, sewing and conversation are allied and inseparable, part of the alternative methodology of speech Walker is explicating.”
      “It was difficult to avoid getting caught up explicating all the biblical allusions in the alphabet.”
      “Instead of explicating a thesis, the immediacy of photography in motion seizes us and renders products of fancy as real.”
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