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clarify
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Word definitions for clarify in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clarify \Clar"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clarified ; p. pr. & vb. n. Clarifying .] [F. clarifier, from L. clarificare; clarus clear + facere to make. See Clear , and Fact .] To make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES clarify a point (= make it clearer ) ▪ Could you clarify a couple of points for me? COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB further ▪ The Public Health Act of 1875 further clarified the duties of sanitary authorities. ▪ This ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. make clear and (more) comprehensible; "clarify the mystery surrounding her death" [syn: clear up , elucidate ] [ant: obfuscate ] make clear by removing impurities or solids, as by heating; "clarify the butter"; "clarify beer" [also: clarified ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., "make illustrious, make known," from Old French clarifiier "clarify, make clear, explain" (12c.), from Late Latin clarificare "to make clear," also "to glorify," from Latin clarificus "brilliant," from clarus "clear, distinct" (see clear (adj.)) ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; -- said of liquids, as wine or syrup. 2 To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate. 3 (context ergative English) To grow or become clear or transparent; ...
Usage examples of clarify.
Asked Andi bluntly, not clarifying whether it was Feight or the roses she asked about.
Instead of a call for peace or a cry to battle, Barnett delivered a defiant statement that seemed designed to protect his political future by clarifying his 7:30 p.
A UCLA biophysicist embraces this new technology while attempting to clarify the reasons why others oppose or fear it.
Though she struggled, the brilliant, clarifying phrases failed to come to mind, much less flow from pen to paper.
Among the many useful techniques which were demonstrated and validated through our case studies, powerful therapeutic relationships were recognized and clarified, replete with transference and countertransference, deep and immediate emotions expressed by the client, and the possibility of long-term engagement even with an ambivalent client.
The complexion clarifies, skin tightens, muscles grow firmer, breasts rise, hips fatten and waist shrinks.
He did not explain this cryptic utterance, and Mavin did not interrupt to ask him to clarify it.
As leaders and interpreters for these groups, they have allowed the internal experience of new mothers to become one that is put into words, clarified, and shared.
It was, in other words, by a series of regular selecting and relating processes, that his general notion was finally clarified.
In fact, I should tell you that Lester Remsen and I are related in some murky way that neither of us chooses to clarify.
Bishop Santorini was not a genius for observation, the scene clarified for him in an instant.
Soviet Union can, I am convinced, be clarified in the shortest possible time if a responsible German statesman can come to Moscow himself to negotiate.
I will take to you where you want to go, immediately tretas, but we clarify a thing: as soon as you arrive, you will leave me in freedom so that it goes to me, of agreement?
Basically, the legal profession tries to clarify definitions and concepts to the point where several people, using common sense logic, can reach a common conclusion.
The ideas of the German-speaking Anarchists had at that time not yet become clarified.