explde - {v.} To explain (something) so that it does not seem true or important. * /John explained away his unfinished homework by showing the teacher his broken arm in a cast./ * /It is hard to explain away Abraham Lincoln's dream about being dead, which he had a few days before he was shot./ * /The man could not explain away the gun and the marked money from the bank robbery that the police found in his car./

explde - {v. phr.} 1. To make your meaning plainer; make your first statement clear. * /When we didn't understand Fritz, he went on to explain himself./ 2. To give a good reason for something you did or failed to do which seems wrong. * /When Jack brought Mary home at three o'clock in the morning, her father asked him to explain himself./

explde - {v. phr.}, {informal} To say something startling; suggest or show something astonishing or shocking, * /The police exploded a bombshell when they arrested the kindly old banker for stealing money from the bank./ * /The principal exploded a bombshell by cancelling the dance as a penalty./ * /Political leaders exploded a bombshell when they picked the young lawyer to run for mayor./

explde - (War and Weaponry) see device

explde - v.tr.
1 make clear or intelligible with detailed information etc. (also absol. : let me explain).
2 (foll. by that + clause) say by way of explanation.
3 account for (one's conduct etc.).

explain away minimize the significance of (a difficulty or mistake) by explanation. explain oneself 1 make one's meaning clear.
2 give an account of one's motives or conduct.

explainable adj. explainer n. [L explanare (as EX-(1), planus flat, assim. to PLAIN(1))]

explde - n.
1 the act or an instance of explaining.
2 a statement or circumstance that explains something.
3 a declaration made with a view to mutual understanding or reconciliation. [ME f. L explanatio (as EXPLAIN)]