clear up

clear up
verb
1. make clear and (more) comprehensible (Freq. 3)
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clarify the mystery surrounding her death

• Syn: ↑clarify, ↑elucidate
• Ant: ↑obfuscate (for: ↑clarify)
• Derivationally related forms: ↑elucidative (for: ↑elucidate), ↑lucidity (for: ↑elucidate), ↑elucidation (for: ↑elucidate), ↑clarification (for: ↑clarify)
• Hypernyms: ↑explain, ↑explicate
• Hyponyms:
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Something ——s something

2. finish a task completely (Freq. 1)
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I finally got through this homework assignment

• Syn: ↑get through, ↑wrap up, ↑finish off, ↑mop up, ↑polish off, ↑finish up
• Derivationally related forms: ↑mop up (for: ↑mop up)
• Hypernyms: ↑complete, ↑finish
• Hyponyms: ↑cap off
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Something ——s something

3. free (the throat) by making a rasping sound (Freq. 1)
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Clear the throat

• Syn: ↑clear
• Hypernyms: ↑remove, ↑take, ↑take away, ↑withdraw
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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Something ——s something

4. become clear
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The sky cleared after the storm

• Syn: ↑clear, ↑light up, ↑brighten
• Ant: ↑overcast
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s

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It is ——ing

5. make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear
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Could you clarify these remarks?

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Clear up the question of who is at fault

• Syn:
• Derivationally related forms: ↑elucidative (for: ↑elucidate), ↑lucidity (for: ↑elucidate), ↑elucidation (for: ↑elucidate), ↑illumination (for: ↑illuminate)
• Hypernyms: ↑clarify, ↑elucidate
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something


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