Interpret
Interpret verb - To make plain or understandable.
To explain and interpret are semantically related. In some cases you can replace phrase "To explain" with "Interpret", this terms are similar.
To explain
Interpret and to explain are semantically related. You can use "Interpret" instead a verb phrase "To explain".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- read and interpret
- read and to explain
- gloss and interpret
- gloss and to explain
- describe and interpret
- describe and to explain
- illuminate and interpret
- illuminate and to explain
- clarify and interpret
- clarify and to explain
- explain and interpret
- explain and to explain
- account for and interpret
- account for and to explain
Both terms in one sentence
- Done as a way to explain a riddle game in Might and Magic VIII — the Big Bad can't tell you how to stop him (he would want to, but there are safeguards that keep him from doing that), but the player characters are of course free to interpret the answers to his riddles any way they want.
Source: Could Say It, But... -
Digging Yourself Deeper: In "Into the Abyss", Kilowog is stuck trying to explain to Aya why she can't be a Green Lantern, utterly failing to produce an argument that she cannot either question or literally interpret.
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