Explain and Mull over

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Explain verb - To make plain or understandable.

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Mull over is an antonym for explain.

Mull over verb - To give serious and careful thought to.

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Explain is an antonym for mull over in wonder about topic.

That's the question that a woodcutter and a priest mull over as they explain the situation to a third person (and, by extension, the audience) while they wait out the rain under the gatehouse roof of the ruined Rashomon temple.

Source: Film / Rashomon

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