Clarify
['klærɪfaɪ] or ['klærəfaɪ]
Definition
(verb.) make clear by removing impurities or solids, as by heating; 'clarify the butter'; 'clarify beer'.
(verb.) make clear and (more) comprehensible; 'clarify the mystery surrounding her death'.
Checker: Lorrie--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; -- said of liquids, as wine or sirup.
(v. t.) To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
(v. t.) To glorify.
(v. i.) To grow or become clear or transparent; to become free from feculent impurities, as wine or other liquid under clarification.
(v. i.) To grow clear or bright; to clear up.
Inputed by Lewis
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Purify, clear, make clear.
Typist: Tito
Definition
v.t. to make clear or pure.—v.i. to become clear:—pr.p. clar′ifying; pa.p. clar′ified.—ns. Clarificā′tion; Clar′ifier that which clarifies or purifies.
Typist: Pierce
Examples
- The first thing necessary in many localities is to clarify the water. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- They define, clarify, and locate the question; they cannot supply its answer. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Some sorts of dirt serve to clarify. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It is the functioning of an abstraction in its application to a new concrete experience,--its extension to clarify and direct new situations. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- At the same time his views on moral questions were clarified, and he came to recognize that truth, sincerity, and integr ity were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- That the abolitionists clarified the economic interests of the North and gave them an ideal sanction is true enough. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Typist: Rodger