account for
78 synonyms found
- accredit with
- accrete to
- acknowledge
- allegorize
- apply to
- ascribe to
- assign to
- attach to
- attribute to
- blame
- blame for
- blame on
- bring home to
- charge on
- charge to
- clarify
- clear
- clear up
- confess
- connect with
- crack
- credit with
- cry sour grapes
- decipher
- demonstrate
- demythologize
- destigmatize
- do justice to
- elucidate
- enlighten
- euhemerize
- exemplify
- explain
- explain away
- explicate
- exposit
- expound
- fasten upon
- father upon
- fix on
- fix upon
- give reason for
- give the meaning
- hang on
- illuminate
- illustrate
- impute to
- justify
- lay to
- make clear
- make plain
- pin on
- pinpoint
- place upon
- point to
- popularize
- purge
- rationalize
- refer to
- rehabilitate
- reinstate
- restore
- saddle on
- saddle with
- set down to
- settle upon
- shed light upon
- show
- show how
- show the way
- simplify
- solve
- spell out
- throw light upon
- unfold
- unlock
- unravel
- warrant
Definition
(v) :
to explain by relating circumstances; to show that some one, thing or members of a group are present or have been processed
"the torrential downpour would account for the saturated state of the land."