Clarify

ahd-5
  • intransitive verb. To make clear or easier to understand; elucidate.
  • intransitive verb. To clear of confusion or uncertainty.
  • intransitive verb. To make clear by removing impurities or solid matter, as by heating gently or filtering.
  • intransitive verb. To become clear.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To glorify.
  • To make clear; especially, purify from feculent matter; defecate; fine: applied particularly to liquors: as, to clarify wine or saccharine syrup. See clarification.
  • To brighten; purify; make clear, in a figurative sense; free from obscurities or defects; render luminous; render intelligent or intelligible.
  • To grow or become clear or free from feculent matter; become pure, as liquors: as, cider clarifies by fermentation.
  • To become clear intellectually; grow clear or perspicuous.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To grow or become clear or transparent; to become free from feculent impurities, as wine or other liquid under clarification.
  • intransitive verb. To grow clear or bright; to clear up.
  • transitive verb. To make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; -- said of liquids, as wine or sirup.
  • transitive verb. To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
  • transitive verb. To glorify.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; -- said of liquids, as wine or syrup.
  • verb. To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
  • verb. To grow or become clear or transparent; to become free from feculent impurities, as wine or other liquid under clarification.
  • verb. To grow clear or bright; to clear up.
  • verb. To glorify.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. make clear by removing impurities or solids, as by heating
  • verb. make clear and (more) comprehensible
  • Word Usage
    "What David has failed to clarify is that what he means by "working rifle" is that you have to "work your a@# off" to buy one!"
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    alter  change  modify  
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