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Verb explain (third-person singular simple present explains, present participle explaining, simple past and past participle explained) (transitive) To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear …
(informal) Oh well then, that explains it (= I understand now why something happened). The phenomenon is partly explained by the fact that global temperatures are rising.