Usually means: Clarifies meaning, provides understanding, elucidates.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. explains: Merriam-Webster
  2. explains: Collins English Dictionary
  3. explains: Vocabulary.com
  4. Explains, explains: Wordnik
  5. explains: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. explains: Wiktionary
  7. explains: Dictionary.com
  8. explains: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. explains: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. explains: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. explains: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (explain)

verb:  (ambitransitive) To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to illustrate the meaning of.
verb:  (transitive) To give a valid excuse for past behavior.
verb:  (obsolete) To make flat, smooth out.
verb:  (obsolete) To unfold or make visible.
verb:  (intransitive) To make something plain or intelligible.
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