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Clear up   /klɪr əp/   Listen
Clear up

verb
1.
Make clear and (more) comprehensible.  Synonyms: clarify, elucidate.  Antonym: obfuscate.
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.  Antonym: overcast.
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



... gladly," he said to his sister, a day or two before the party was to set out. "For your sake, Hafrydda, I will do my best to clear up the mystery; and I think it highly probable that I shall find the runaway safely ...
— The Hot Swamp • R.M. Ballantyne
... I want to clear up my head while I'm working. He is—how one would always like to work. Sometimes Chopin and those others, but ...
— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells
... ugly—wears spectacles. Father says he's a treasure—to me—and then when they're in the shop I hear him going on at him like anything for being a stupid. And I have to give the creature tea when father's away, to clear up after him as though he were a school-child. And father gets in a regular passion if I ask him about the dance and there's a missionary tea next week, and he's made me take a table—and he wants me to teach in Sunday School—and the minister's wife has been talking to him ...
— The History of David Grieve • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... Phil's advice and eat all the chocolates that you want to while it rains, and it doesn't clear up soon—well, all I have to ...
— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield
... him. Barring Wirt, he has all the talent on his side. I'll leave you here to clear up things." ...
— Lewis Rand • Mary Johnston


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