"explain away" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "explains away",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "explaining away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "explained away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "explained away",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "explain away (third-person singular simple present explains away, present participle explaining away, simple past and past participle explained away)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"away\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Russian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Swedish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He couldn't just explain away all of his problems.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 44:",
          "text": "“I have heard it all. And how you will explain away any part of your guilt in that dreadful business, I confess is beyond my comprehension.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 October 18, Murtada Elfadl, “Killers Of The Flower Moon review: Martin Scorsese's uniquely American tragedy”, in AV Club:",
          "text": "De Niro veers dangerously close to caricature—making chirpy noises, always tilting his head, adding dashes of comedy—yet he ends up personifying evil while never sanding off the edges of this horrible man or trying to explain away his misdeeds with a humanist approach.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To dismiss or minimize (a problem, etc.) by explanation."
      ],
      "id": "en-explain_away-en-verb-o18rMxxn",
      "links": [
        [
          "dismiss",
          "dismiss"
        ],
        [
          "minimize",
          "minimize"
        ],
        [
          "problem",
          "problem"
        ],
        [
          "explanation",
          "explanation"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "explain"
        },
        {
          "word": "explanation"
        },
        {
          "word": "explanatory"
        },
        {
          "word": "nothing-buttery"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "otdelyvatʹsja",
          "sense": "to dismiss or minimize by explanation",
          "word": "отделываться"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "opravdyvatʹsja",
          "sense": "to dismiss or minimize by explanation",
          "word": "оправдываться"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to dismiss or minimize by explanation",
          "word": "bortförklara"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "explain away"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "explains away",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "explaining away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "explained away",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "explained away",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "explain away (third-person singular simple present explains away, present participle explaining away, simple past and past participle explained away)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "explain"
    },
    {
      "word": "explanation"
    },
    {
      "word": "explanatory"
    },
    {
      "word": "nothing-buttery"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs formed with \"away\"",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English verbs",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He couldn't just explain away all of his problems.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 44:",
          "text": "“I have heard it all. And how you will explain away any part of your guilt in that dreadful business, I confess is beyond my comprehension.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 October 18, Murtada Elfadl, “Killers Of The Flower Moon review: Martin Scorsese's uniquely American tragedy”, in AV Club:",
          "text": "De Niro veers dangerously close to caricature—making chirpy noises, always tilting his head, adding dashes of comedy—yet he ends up personifying evil while never sanding off the edges of this horrible man or trying to explain away his misdeeds with a humanist approach.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To dismiss or minimize (a problem, etc.) by explanation."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "dismiss",
          "dismiss"
        ],
        [
          "minimize",
          "minimize"
        ],
        [
          "problem",
          "problem"
        ],
        [
          "explanation",
          "explanation"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "otdelyvatʹsja",
      "sense": "to dismiss or minimize by explanation",
      "word": "отделываться"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "opravdyvatʹsja",
      "sense": "to dismiss or minimize by explanation",
      "word": "оправдываться"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to dismiss or minimize by explanation",
      "word": "bortförklara"
    }
  ],
  "word": "explain away"
}