Explain and Wave

Explain

Explain verb - To make plain or understandable.

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

Wave verb - To direct or notify by a movement or gesture.

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Explain and wave are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Explain" instead a verb "Wave".

Nearby Words: waved, waving, wavy, wavelet, waveband

strength	explain strength	wave strength
part	explain part	wave part
problem	explain problem	wave problem
time	explain time	wave time
Other words: fact, story, absence, times.

In an episode of The Fairly Oddparents, Timmy ends up getting blamed for a wave of shoplifting when he can't explain how he got everything he wished for.

Source: Clear My Name
Backstory: In the first hundred or so pages of The 5th Wave, Cassie repeatedly flashes back to explain what has happened to her from when the spaceship first appeared in the sky onwards.

Source: Literature / The Fifth Wave
This would also explain numerous other functions of the chest piece such as a deceleration rocket or a short range wave motion gun.

Source: Artistic License Nuclear Physics

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Wave or Explain. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/explain/wave.

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