EXPLICATING Synonyms

• an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious

• make clear and (more) comprehensible

• make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear

• make plain and comprehensible

• define

• serve as a reason or cause or justification of

• clarify by giving an example of

• depict with an illustration

• supply with illustrations

• make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation

• work out

• gain through experience

• come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)

• come into existence; take on form or shape

• change the use of and make available or usable

• elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses

• create by training and teaching

• be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest

• grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment

• become technologically advanced

• cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development

• generate gradually

• grow emotionally or mature

• make visible by means of chemical solutions

• superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry

• move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions

• move into a strategically more advantageous position

• elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme

• happen

• expand in the form of a series

• make plain and comprehensible

• define

• serve as a reason or cause or justification of

• elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses

• come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort

• put into words or an expression

• prepare according to a formula