Usually means: Clarifying meaning through detailed information.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. explaining: Merriam-Webster
  2. explaining: Collins English Dictionary
  3. explaining: Vocabulary.com
  4. Explaining, explaining: Wordnik
  5. explaining: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. explaining: Wiktionary
  7. Explaining, explaining: Dictionary.com
  8. explaining: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Explaining: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Explaining: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Explaining: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. explaining: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. explaining: FreeDictionary.org
  14. explaining: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. explaining: Idioms

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▸ noun:  explanation

Similar:
explicate, excuse, describe, telling, discuss, illustrate, clarifying, explanation, summarize, outline, more...

Opposite:
obscuring, confusing, mystifying, concealing, complicating

Types:
demonstrative, expository, analytical, descriptive, comparative, cause-and-effect, argumentative, interpretive, more...

Phrases:
explaining away, self explaining, over explaining, good at explaining, explaining something, more...

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Similar:
explicate, excuse, describe, telling, discuss, illustrate, clarifying, explanation, summarize, outline, more...

Opposite:
obscuring, confusing, mystifying, concealing, complicating

Types:
demonstrative, expository, analytical, descriptive, comparative, cause-and-effect, argumentative, interpretive, more...

Phrases:
explaining away, self explaining, over explaining, good at explaining, explaining something, explaining something complicated, explaining things, understand what someone is explaining, explaining further, more...

Colors:
    blue,     green,     yellow,     orange,     red, more...



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