单词 | clear up |
释义 | clear up (once / 1115 pages) 1v 2v 3v 4v WORD FAMILY clear up: cleared up, clearing up, clears up USAGE EXAMPLESThe man told police that two men showed with rakes and offered to clear up his leaves. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) Malta International Airport said it hoped to clear up the backlog of delayed and diverted flights by late Friday. Washington Times(Dec 23, 2016) The unredacted portions of the report do not indicate whether the panel learned anything new to clear up that murkiness. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) 1 v become clear 2Syn|Ant brighten, clear, light up cloud, overcast make overcast or cloudy 1v make clear and (more) comprehensible Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper clarify, elucidate obfuscate make obscure or unclear demystify make less mysterious or remove the mystery from clear, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten outmake free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrateadd details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing disambiguatestate unambiguously or remove ambiguities from detailprovide details for exposit, expound, set forthstate exemplify, illustrate, instanceclarify by giving an example of particularise, particularize, specialise, specialize, specifybe specific about explain, explicate make plain and comprehensible 2v make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear 3Syn|Hyper clear, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out clarify, elucidate make clear and (more) comprehensible v finish a task completely 4Syn|Hypo|Hyper finish off, finish up, get through, mop up, polish off, wrap up cap off finish or complete, as with some decisive action complete, finish come or bring to a finish or an end v free (the throat) by making a rasping sound Syn|Hyper clear remove, take, take away, withdraw remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract |
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