clarify

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[edit] English

Part or all of this page has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

[edit] Etymology

From French clarifier, from Latin clarificare; clarus (clear) + facere (make).

[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to clarify

Third person singular
clarifies

Simple past
clarified

Past participle
clarified

Present participle
clarifying

to clarify (third-person singular simple present clarifies, present participle clarifying, simple past and past participle clarified)

  1. To make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; -- said of liquids, as wine or syrup.
  2. To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
  3. To grow or become clear or transparent; to become free from feculent impurities, as wine or other liquid under clarification.
  4. To grow clear or bright; to clear up.
  5. (obsolete) To glorify.

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