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Clear up   /klɪr əp/   Listen
Clear up

verb
1.
Make clear and (more) comprehensible.  Synonyms: clarify, elucidate.
2.
Finish a task completely.  Synonyms: finish off, finish up, get through, mop up, polish off, wrap up.
3.
Free (the throat) by making a rasping sound.  Synonym: clear.
4.
Become clear.  Synonyms: brighten, clear, light up.
5.
Make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear.  Synonyms: clear, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out.  "Clear up the question of who is at fault"






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"Clear up" Quotes from Famous Books



... "When I've helped clear up, I'll come and talk. Now, mother, you sit down and rest; Roxy and I can do everything," answered Merry, patting the old rocking-chair so invitingly that the tired woman could not resist, especially as watching the kettle gave her ...
— Jack and Jill • Louisa May Alcott

... confessed that his loot had been secreted "in the tower." It remained for the Hardy Boys to clear up the mystery. ...
— The Rover Boys Under Canvas - or The Mystery of the Wrecked Submarine • Arthur M. Winfield

... introduced, or re-introduced, into our theological thinking without necessitating a good deal of revision, nor without causing a certain measure of temporary confusion and dislocation; it will accordingly be the principal object of the following chapters to clear up misapprehensions which have arisen in connection with the idea of immanence, to assign to it its approximately proper place in Christian thought, and to safeguard an important truth against the injury done to it—and {22} ...
— Problems of Immanence - Studies Critical and Constructive • J. Warschauer

... Washington to clear up various odds and ends of his diplomatic experience resulted in an interview with President Jackson, which he reported in a letter to Peter Irving, now living alone in Paris: "I have been most kindly received by the old general, with whom I am much pleased as well as amused. ...
— Washington Irving • Henry W. Boynton

... now to clear up another difficulty, which has distressed so deeply the best and wisest of men that to get rid of it some have felt justified in tampering with the truth. If art had anything to do with politics, evidently art ...
— Since Cezanne • Clive Bell


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