explain : Idioms & Phrases

Index

re-explain

  • verb interpret from a different viewpoint
    reinterpret.
WordNet

self-explaining

self`-ex*plain"ing adjective
Definitions
  1. Explaining itself; capable of being understood without explanation.
Webster 1913

To explain away

  • to get rid of by explanation. "Those explain the meaning quite "away."
Webster 1913