Definition of Explain

Verb

  • serve as a reason or cause or justification of
    "Your need to sleep late does not excuse your late arrival at work"
    "Her recent divorce may explain her reluctance to date again"
  • define
    "The committee explained their plan for fund-raising to the Dean"
  • make plain and comprehensible
    "He explained the laws of physics to his students"
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Word games points for the Explain

  • Scrabble® score of the explain (16)
  • Word Chums® score of the explain (21)
  • Words With Friends® score of the explain (19)

Unscramble explain

119 unscramble word found using the letters explain.
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