explicate

explicate

verb

Definition of EXPLICATE

to make plain or understandable <the physicist did his best to explicate the wave theory of light for the audience of laymen>

Synonyms clarify, clear (up), construe, demonstrate, demystify, elucidate, explicate, expound, get across, illuminate, illustrate, interpret, simplify, spell out, unriddle

Related Words decipher, decode; analyze, break down; disentangle, undo, unravel, unscramble, untangle; resolve, solve; define, specify; annotate, commentate, gloss

Near Antonyms befog, cloud; confound, confuse, obfuscate

Antonyms obscure