explainingnoun [ U ]
uk/ɪkˈspleɪ.nɪŋ/us/ɪkˈspleɪ.nɪŋ/the act of explaining or giving a good reason for your actions:
You'll have a lot of explaining to do when your dad finds out what happened.
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Defining & explaining
- (do you) see what I mean? idiom
- account (to sb) for sth
- accountable
- cast
- clarify
- convey
- demystify
- descriptive
- every picture tells a story idiom
- evocative
- evoke
- explicable
- explicate
- fill
- get sth across
- mean
- scene
- schematic
- that is to say ... idiom
- unfold
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