clear up
v 1: make clear and (more) comprehensible; "clarify the mystery
surrounding her death" [syn: clarify, elucidate]
[ant: obfuscate]
2: finish a task completely; "I finally got through this
homework assignment" [syn: get through, wrap up, finish
off, mop up, polish off, finish up]
3: free (the throat) by making a rasping sound; "Clear the
throat" [syn: clear]
4: become clear; "The sky cleared after the storm" [syn: clear,
light up, brighten] [ant: overcast]
5: make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear; "Could
you clarify these remarks?"; "Clear up the question of who
is at fault" [syn: clear, shed light on, crystallize,
crystallise, crystalize, crystalise, straighten
out, sort out, enlighten, illuminate, elucidate]
WordNet (r) 2.0
131 Moby Thesaurus words for "clear up":
account for, allegorize, answer, ascertain, assure, bottom,
certify, cinch, cipher, clarify, clean up, clear, clear the decks,
clinch, crack, debug, decide, decipher, decode, demonstrate,
demythologize, determine, disembroil, disentangle, disintricate,
disinvolve, dismiss all doubt, dissolve, divine, do, dope,
dope out, elucidate, enlighten, ensure, establish, euhemerize,
exemplify, explain, explain away, explicate, exposit, expound,
fathom, figure out, find out, find the answer, find the solution,
fix, fix up, get, get at, get right, give reason for,
give the meaning, groom, guess, guess right, have it, hit it,
illuminate, illustrate, insure, interpret, make certain,
make clear, make no doubt, make no mistake, make out, make plain,
make sure, make sure of, nail down, neaten, open the lock, plumb,
police, police up, popularize, psych, psych out, put in trim,
puzzle out, rationalize, ravel, ravel out, reassure,
remove all doubt, resolve, riddle, see that, see to it,
set at rest, settle, shed light upon, show, show how, show the way,
simplify, solve, sort out, spell out, spruce, spruce up,
straighten up, throw light upon, tidy, tidy up, trig up, trim,
trim up, unbraid, unclutter, uncoil, undo, unfold, unknot, unlock,
unmix, unravel, unriddle, unscramble, unsnarl, untangle, unthread,
untwine, untwist, unweave, unwind, work, work out
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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