vverb.communicationmake understandSynset:edify
Examples:- Can you enlighten me--I don't understand this proposal
Derivationally Related Form:enlightenmentedification
Hypernyms:instruct learn teach
Inherited Hypernyms:enlightenteachinformcommunicateinteractact
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s somebody | Something ---s somebody | The performance is likely to --- Sue (apply to: enlighten, edify)
vverb.communicationgive spiritual insight to; in religionSynset:irradiate
Hypernyms:prophesy vaticinate
Inherited Hypernyms:enlightenprophesypredictguessspeculatereasonthink
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something
vverb.cognitionmake free from confusion or ambiguity; make clearSynset:clear clear up crystalise crystalize crystallise crystallize elucidate illuminate shed light on sort out straighten out
Examples:- Could you clarify these remarks?
- Clear up the question of who is at fault
Derivationally Related Form:elucidativelucidityelucidationillumination
Hypernyms:clarify clear up elucidate
Inherited Hypernyms:clearclarifyexplaininformcommunicateinteractact
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something