Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- 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.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To glorify.
- To make clear; especially, purify from feculent matter; defecate; fine: applied particularly to liquors: as, to
clarify wine or saccharine syrup. Seeclarification . - 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.
from 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 obsolete To glorify.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
make clear or bright by freeing fromfeculent 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 ergative To grow or become clear or transparent; to become free from feculent impurities, as wine or other liquid under clarification.
- verb ergative To grow clear or bright; to clear up.
- verb obsolete To
glorify .
from 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
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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If you're going to approach front loading as an engineering problem, the first thing you need to clarify is whether there's any engineering differences to look for between a normal mindless variation and a front loaded variation.
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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!
A Top-Notch Working Rifle: David Petzal Reviews the Montana Rifle Company Model 1999 Ridgeline 2009
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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!
A Top-Notch Working Rifle: David Petzal Reviews the Montana Rifle Company Model 1999 Ridgeline 2009
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One writer, however, Mr Harry Stuart, has made a little book called We Have Kept the Faith, where, though one finds no perfect poem, one finds constant beauty of metaphor and strangeness of thought, and so no lucky accident but a personality.289 Will his expression clarify, his music grow strong and confident, or will his promise remain unfulfilled?
Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000
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One thing I wanted to clarify is that the attack does not require the attacker to have any physical proximity to the victim.
Drive-by Web attack aimed at home routers…what? — Meandering Passage 2007
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Just to clarify, the Russian word “negr” simply means a black person, someone of negroid race.
Racism In Russia: Obama Only Too Happy To Channel Bo Jangles « Sigmund, Carl and Alfred 2009
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What he neglects to clarify is that we, as members of the armed forces, are sworn to do more than simply obey; we are sworn to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
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What he neglects to clarify is that we, as members of the armed forces, are sworn to do more than simply obey; we are sworn to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
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The only detail I would like to clarify is that there was no "stylising" whatsoever of the archival Super 8mm or vintage home video footage that was found and used in the film.
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September 30th, 2005 at 11: 33 am sorry to sound like homer simpson, but just to clarify is Winmx no longer available free.
WinMX goes offline 2005
TankHughes commented on the word clarify
Oh god, I never would have thought of clarify as a synonym of defecate. #buttertrauma
August 18, 2015
ruzuzu commented on the word clarify
Thanks! You've just given me an epiphany about Leonard Cohen's Famous Blue Raincoat song:
Yes, and Jane came by with a lock of your hair
She said that you gave it to her
That night that you planned to go clear
Did you ever go clear?
August 18, 2015