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[ verb ] make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear
Examples : "Could you clarify these remarks?" "Clear up the question of who is at fault" Used in print (Joyce O. Hertzler, American Social Institutions;...)The kind of religious experience that most moderns seek not_only provides , clarifies , and relates human yearnings , values , ideals , and purposes ; it also provides facilities and incitements for the development of personality , sociality , and creativeness . (William Maxwell, The Chateau....)And in_any_case , answers may clarify but they do not change anything . Related terms |
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[ verb ] make clear or clearer
Examples "Clarify your ideas, please" Used in print (S. Idell Pyle, et al., Onsets, Completions, and...)This difference is readily clarified by referring to Table 1 . (Jacob Robbins et al., "The thyroid-stimulating...)This connection was clarified by Smith and Smith ( 1922 ) , who showed that saline extracts of fresh bovine pituitary_glands could re-activate the atrophied thyroids of hypophysectomised tadpoles . |
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[ verb ] make clear and (more) comprehensible
Examples "clarify the mystery surrounding her death" Used in print (Musical America, LXXXI:5...)By 1937 he had clarified his intentions to serve his people : `` I have striven for clarity and melodious idiom , but at_the_same_time I have by_no_means attempted to restrict myself to the accepted methods of harmony and melody . (James Boylan, "Mutinity"...)First , they wanted to clarify a tantalizing , bizarre enigma . (Morton A. Kaplan and Nicholas de B. Katzenbach,...)When the power of the latter was made both limited and explicit - when norms were clarified and made more precise and the creation of new norms was placed exclusively in parliamentary hands - two purposes were served : Government was made subservient to an institutionalized popular will , and law became a rational system for implementing that will , for serving conscious goals , for embodying the `` public policy '' . Related terms obfuscate explain elaborate disambiguate demystify clarity clarification |
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