Definition of "explained" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of explain. (verb)

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• "Didn't he ask himself if there was a single event that could be explained save on the assumption of a moral faculty in man, so that on the basis of it, "the tendency of mankind toward the good" could be _explained_, once and for all time?"
• "How such a security came about is economically in every sense of the term explained by Mr. Ferguson."
• "“Joleen,” Buzz said, as if the name explained everything."