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Clarify   /klˈɛrəfˌaɪ/   Listen
Clarify

verb
(past & past part. clarified; pres. part. clarifying)
1.
Make clear and (more) comprehensible.  Synonyms: clear up, elucidate.  Antonym: obfuscate.
2.
Make clear by removing impurities or solids, as by heating.  "Clarify beer"





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"Clarify" Quotes from Famous Books



... with "Mademoiselle de Maupin" and it did more than to reveal and clarify the ideas we were seeking. It would be vain for me, as for any other man, to attempt to follow the course of an idea and to try to determine its action upon life. Perhaps the part of the book which ...
— Memoirs of My Dead Life • George Moore
... about to take place at the Weights and Measures was ordained to be the first of those examinations which, under the auspices of Sir Gregory Hardlines, were destined to revivify, clarify, and render perfect the Civil Service of the country. It was a great triumph to Sir Gregory to see the darling object of his heart thus commencing its existence in the very cradle in which he, as an infant Hercules, ...
— The Three Clerks • Anthony Trollope
... it distinctly understood that I am not a partisan. I am not pro this or pro that or pro anything except pro-American, and the principal impulse I have in trying to clarify my mind is my hope that there may be an end to these hysterical exhibitions of partisanship, in which (throughout this neutral nation) men indulge who still hold too strongly, as I think, to the glory, honor, dignity, and traditions of the ...
— The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 - What Americans Say to Europe • Various
... the English reader due to the architecture of relative clauses, prepositions, and verbs as carried over from the original German. It is the preparer's ambition for a second Gutenberg edition of the History of Rome to reconstruct and clarify the most turgid specimens. ...
— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen
... express aim is to clarify our minds, to make us think lucidly and in consequence speak with precision. We have already seen what value he sets on the right word in the right place. He is the enemy of all those who shamble along ...
— Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France • Edmund Gosse


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