Explain and Help

Explain

Explain verb - To make plain or understandable.

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Help and explain are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Help" instead a verb "Explain".

Help verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.

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Explain and help are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Explain" instead a verb "Help".

Nearby Words: helpful, helped, helpless, helper, helping

situation	explain situation	help situation
time	explain time	help time
fact	explain fact	help fact
way	explain way	help way
Other words: characters, bit, times.

All they had to do was offer to help and explain that they had started an after-school baby-sitting business, whereupon one of the parents they'd worked for would chime in with, "They're very responsible," and bingo, they were treated like honorary adults, no further questions asked.

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All the BBC has to do is offer to help and explain that they have an after-school baby-sitting business, whereupon one of the parents they'd worked for would chime in with, "They're very responsible," and bingo, they were treated like honorary adults, no further questions asked.

Source: Wise Beyond Their Years
He does Force-choke the man when he starts to explain that BB-8 and Finn had the help of a girl (Rey), but said man is seen later, shaken but still alive.

Source: You Have Failed Me

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