Crossword clues for clear up
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To clarify, to correct a misconception. 2 (context intransitive English) Of stormy weather, to dissipate, to become calm.
WordNet
v. make clear and (more) comprehensible; "clarify the mystery surrounding her death" [syn: clarify, elucidate] [ant: obfuscate]
finish a task completely; "I finally got through this homework assignment" [syn: get through, wrap up, finish off, mop up, polish off, finish up]
free (the throat) by making a rasping sound; "Clear the throat" [syn: clear]
become clear; "The sky cleared after the storm" [syn: clear, light up, brighten] [ant: overcast]
make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear; "Could you clarify these remarks?"; "Clear up the question of who is at fault" [syn: clear, shed light on, crystallize, crystallise, crystalize, crystalise, straighten out, sort out, enlighten, illuminate, elucidate]
Usage examples of "clear up".
As soon as we got the cabins in condition to be used, I determined to clear up some land so that we could plant a crop.
But if I promise to go, you must promise not to go near the window for an hour, and not to ask again to-day if I think it's going to clear up.
To clear up which I endeavoured to give him some ideas of the desire of power and riches, of the terrible effects of lust, intemperance, malice, and envy.
Genie herself had overcome many faults in a forty-year, twenty-step program of her own design, and was thinking about gearing up for another pass soon, to clear up the leftovers and start in on a new set of faults.
To conclude, Sancho, by his master's orders, paid him very liberally, and taking leave of him they quitted the inn at about eight in the morning and took to the road, where we will leave them to pursue their journey, for this is necessary in order to allow certain other matters to be set forth, which are required to clear up this famous history.
And to clear up these doubts we must undertake three explanations.
Nothing could have been more distasteful to her than to clear up such obscurities by turning on them the tiny flame of her daughter's observation.
Then we'll spread out to clear up the area behind the Vistula line.
Haines accordingly sent for me, in the hope that I might know something which would clear up the mystery of my uncle's last years.
They were said to be working all day and half the night in their haste to clear up the work and be released from the humiliation.