account for

• POS: Verb (intransitive)
• HYPHEN: ac=count for

THESAURUS

account for

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, exculpate, 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, vindicate, warrant

ROGET THESAURUS

account for

Attribution

VB attribute to, ascribe to, impute to, refer to, lay to, point to, trace to, bring home to, put down to, set down to, blame, charge on, ground on, invest with, assign as cause, lay at, the door of, father upon, account for, derive from, point out the reason, theorize, tell how it comes, put the saddle on the right horse.

Interpretation

VB interpret, explain, define, construe, translate, render, do into, turn into, transfuse the sense of, find out, 1 the meaning of, read, spell out, make out, decipher, unravel, disentangle, find the key of, enucleate, resolve, solve, read between the lines, account for, find the cause, tell the cause of, throw light upon, shed light upon, shed new light upon, shed fresh light upon, clear up, clarify, elucidate, illustrate, exemplify, unfold, expound, comment upon, annotate, popularize, take in a particular sense, understand in a particular sense, receive in a particular sense, accept in a particular sense, understand by, put a construction on, be given to understand.