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clear up
verb
1 clear up
Make clear and (more) comprehensible.
synonyms: clarify, elucidate.
Roget 522:
interpret,
explain,
define,
construe,
translate,
render;
do into,
turn into;
transfuse the sense of.
find out
etc.
480.1
the meaning of,
etc.
516
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
etc.
153;
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
etc.
(render intelligible)
518.
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.
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Roget 518:
be intelligible
etc.
adj.;
speak for itself,
speak volumes;
tell its own tale,
lie on the surface.
render intelligible
etc.
adj.;
popularize,
simplify,
clear up;
elucidate
etc.
(explain)
522.
understand,
comprehend,
take,
take in;
catch,
grasp,
follow,
collect,
master,
make out;
see with half an eye,
see daylight,
see one's way;
enter into the ideas of;
come to an understanding.
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Dutch: duiden, verklaren
2 clear up
3 clear up
Free (the throat) by making a rasping sound.
synonym: clear.
4 clear up
5 clear up
Make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear:
— Clear up the question of who is at fault.
synonyms: clear, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out ... show more.
Roget 420:
shine,
glow,
glitter;
glister,
glisten;
twinkle,
gleam;
flare,
flare up;
glare,
beam,
shimmer,
glimmer,
flicker,
sparkle,
scintillate,
coruscate,
flash,
blaze;
be bright
etc.
adj.;
reflect light,
daze,
dazzle,
bedazzle,
radiate,
shoot out beams;
fulgurate.
clear up,
brighten.
lighten,
enlighten;
levin†;
light,
light up;
irradiate,
shine upon;
give out a light,
hang out a light;
cast light upon,
cast light in,
throw light upon,
throw light in,
shed light upon,
shed luster upon;
illume†,
illumine,
illuminate;
relume†,
strike a light;
kindle
etc.
(set fire to)
384.
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Dutch: verstaanbaar, begrijpelijk, helder, duidelijk, verklaren, verduidelijken, onderrichten
Moby thesaurus: account for, allegorize, answer, ascertain, assure, bottom, certify, cinch, cipher, clarify, clean up, clear, clear the decks, clinch, crack, debug, decide, decipher, decode, demonstrate, demythologize, determine, disembroil, disentangle, disintricate, disinvolve, dismiss all doubt, dissolve, divine, do, dope, dope out, elucidate, enlighten, ensure, establish, euhemerize, exemplify, explain, explain away, explicate, exposit, expound, fathom, figure out, find out, find the answer, find the solution, fix, fix up, get, get at, get right, give reason for, give the meaning, groom, guess, guess right, have it, hit it, illuminate, illustrate, insure, interpret, make certain, make clear, make no doubt, make no mistake, make out, make plain, make sure, make sure of, nail down, neaten, open the lock, plumb, police, police up, popularize, psych, psych out, put in trim, puzzle out, rationalize, ravel, ravel out, reassure, remove all doubt, resolve, riddle, see that, see to it, set at rest, settle, shed light upon, show, show how, show the way, simplify, solve, sort out, spell out, spruce, spruce up, straighten up, throw light upon, tidy, tidy up, trig up, trim, trim up, unbraid, unclutter, uncoil, undo, unfold, unknot, unlock, unmix, unravel, unriddle, unscramble, unsnarl, untangle, unthread, untwine, untwist, unweave, unwind, work, work out ... show more.
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