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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  excuse , explicate