To explain, expound, declare the meaning of.

figurative. transitive. To expound, explain, interpret; to declare; (also) to reveal, disclose. Cf. unlock, v. 1d.

transitive. To run through (a passage of text, etc.); to survey, discuss, or consider (a subject, etc.); (later) esp. to review or glance through…

transitive. To make clear or manifest.

transitive. To expound.

To disclose or reveal by statement or exposition; to explain or make clear.

To invest (words) with a sense or meaning. To explain or expound (in some way). Obsolete.

transitive. To explain the sense of, clarify; to expound, interpret. Obsolete.

transitive. To explain; to make clear or intelligible.

transitive. To present an account or reckoning of (one's actions, etc.); to answer for, to explain or justify. Also intransitive with of. Cf…

To explain, interpret, expound. Now rare.

transitive. To interpret (something); to expound, explain. Also intransitive.

transitive. To expound the meaning of (something abstruse or mysterious); to render (words, writings, an author, etc.) clear or explicit; to…

To open, unwind, or unroll (what is wrapped or wound); †to unfurl (a sail). Also figurative.

transitive. To interpret or explain; to give an account of (something). Obsolete.

figurative. To enlighten (ignorance, etc.); to throw light upon (a subject).

transitive. To make clear or plain (anything that is obscure or imperfectly understood); to clear up, explain, expound, interpret, elucidate.

To explain, interpret. gen. To explain (what is difficult or obscure); to state the signification of; to comment on (a passage or an author).

transitive. To release (esp. hair) from a plait or plaits, to undo the plaits of. In early use chiefly figurative: to explain, to make sense of (a…

transitive. ? To open, make plain.

transitive. figurative. To make plain or intelligible; to show or state plainly; to explain. Also: to explain or make clear to (a person). Obsolete.

To make clear or plain to the mind; to free from obscurity or ambiguity; to explain, elucidate.

To expound, explain, interpret.

To display, exhibit, expose; to set forth, expound, demonstrate. ? Now rare.

to give (also carry) light and variants: to provide explanatory information regarding a subject. Usually with to or into. Obsolete.

figurative and in figurative context.

To set forth the meaning of; to explain, expound. Obsolete.

transitive. To interpret, analyse. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To expound, unfold, clear up (a matter), as in a manifesto or public declaration. Obsolete.

transitive. To express fully in words, make explicit; to give a detailed account of; = explain, v. 2. Formerly also with indirect question as object…

transitive. To describe or give an account of in order to bring about understanding, to explicate; to give details of, enter into details…

transitive. To provide a key to (something obscure or difficult to decipher); to expound, explain, or interpret.

transitive. To make clear or plain; to elucidate.

transitive. To render lucid; now only figurative to throw light upon, clear up, explain. Also absol.

To throw the light of intelligence upon; to make clear, elucidate, clear up, explain.

transitive. To tear, rend.

transitive. To make clear the meaning of; to remove difficulties or obscurities from; to clear up; = explain, v. 1. Now rare.

transitive. To shed light upon; to make clear, clear up, elucidate.

figurative. To extract the ‘kernel’ from; to bring out from disguise; to lay open, clear, explain.

transitive. To disentangle.

transitive. To make (something) clear or evident; to demonstrate (something).

To put or bring forward in argument or the like; to expound; to make patent; to expose. Also reflexive to expatiate upon.

To unravel, disentangle, clear up (what is confused or intricate). Also transferred of persons: to put (someone) right, esp. by explanation. Now…

transitive. To unbraid, disentangle, make plain.

To disentangle by explanation or exposition; to expound, make plain. Obsolete.

transitive. In figurative contexts and extended metaphors: to make out or comprehend the meaning of (text, or something regarded figuratively as…

To throw light upon (a subject); to make luminous or clear; to elucidate. Also absol.

transitive. To shed light on, elucidate (a subject, question, etc.).

transitive. To explain; to make clear. Obsolete.

To decipher. Obsolete.

transitive. To make clear, explain; to clear up.

to take (a person) with one: to speak so that (a person) can follow one's meaning; to enable (a person) to understand one; to be explicit. Usually in…

transitive. To unravel, untangle (literal and figurative). Chiefly with †up, out. Now Newfoundland.

transitive. With out. To disentangle, make plain or clear (a matter, a story, etc.); to explicate; to puzzle out. Now rare.

To open up or disclose by investigation or exposition. (Common in 17th cent.)

transitive. To make (a person or thing) clear; to uncloud; to clear mist from, to demist. Also intransitive: to become unclouded or free from mist.

transitive. To unravel (what is tangled); figurative to clear of intricacies or perplexities. Now rare.

absol. To unfold, explain. Obsolete.

In figurative uses. Also reflexive.

transitive. To loose, untie (a knot); also figurative to solve (a riddle).

transitive. To put an end to the perplexity, confusion, or affliction of. Also occasionally intr. (cf. perplex, v. 1c).

transitive. To make clear or evident.

transitive. To remove the plaits from; to unravel. In quot. 1637 figurative.

transitive. To make plain, disclose, reveal; to investigate and solve (a mystery, etc.), to work out. Also reflexive.

transitive. To make clear, clear up.

figurative. To clear (the mind, etc.) from ignorance, misconception, or error; to rectify.

To make clear by exposition; to expose, disclose. Also absol. Obsolete.

transitive. To free from darkness or obscurity.

transitive. To divest of mystery.

To decipher.

To make straight or plain.

transitive. To remove the paradoxical character of.

transitive. figurative. Of a fact, explanation, etc.: to shed (light) on or upon a subject, question, or issue (sometimes indirectly).

transitive. To free from knots; also figurative to unravel, clear of difficulties.

transitive. To remove mystery from (something); to clarify.

transitive. To make clear or plain (something obscure or confused); to render unambiguous; to settle (differences, disputes). Obsolete.

transitive. To go over (a subject) again, to expound. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To make clear and lucid (to the mind); to elucidate.

figurative. to throw (a) sidelight on and variants: to help to clarify or enliven (a topic, statement, etc.) by providing additional or incidental…

to throw (also cast, shed) light on (also upon): to help to explain (something) by providing further information.

transitive. To clear up.

figurative and transferred. To illumine with spiritual or intellectual light; to throw light upon anything intellectually obscure.

(un-, prefix2 affix 1a.)

transitive. figurative. To abridge, condense, or summarize (a text, a body of knowledge, etc.) in order to make it easier to understand or assimilate.

In colloquial phrases, as to get (something) straight, to make (something) clear, to reach an understanding; to keep (someone) straight, to keep…

transitive. To make (something) unambiguous; to render more easily distinguished or differentiated from something else; spec. to remove uncertainty…

transitive. To clarify (obscure, clouded, or irrational beliefs); to reduce or remove bewilderment, irrationality, etc., in (a person).