Explain and Well

Explain

Explain verb - To make plain or understandable.

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

Well

Well verb - Come up, as of a liquid.

Explain and well are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Explain" instead a verb "Well".

Nearby Word: welled

Common collocations

name explain name well name

Both words in one sentence

  • Film / Event Horizon The Watson: The space marines need to get Weir to explain, in simple words, how the ship's FTL drive works, which of course allows him to explain it to the audience as well.
  • Western Animation / Transformers Animated Troubled Backstory Flashback: Each of the core Autobots has one or more that explain how they ended up where they were when they discovered the Allspark as well as explain their outlooks on things.
  • Giant Space Flea from Nowhere Atari-esque avatars of the Wachowskis stopped the plot at that point to explain how the metaphorical ending of the movies didn't translate well into a video game.
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