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clarify English

Meaning clarify meaning

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Definitions in simple English

clarify Verb

— If you clarify something, you make it clearer. Finally, we would recommend further research to clarify the various issues. The presentation of the results in these graphs and tables will help to clarify the idea. I think we need to clarify what we have heard on the tape.

clarify

— verb make clear and (more) comprehensible clarify the mystery surrounding her death — verb make clear by removing impurities or solids, as by heating clarify the butter clarify beer

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explain elucidate clear up make clear clear interpret illuminate refine purify expound define specify reveal illustrate explicate account for teach simplify manifest make public justify enlighten disclose construe unroll unfurl unfold settle set in order rinse put in order net fine filter exemplify dry disambiguate defecate confirm cleanse clean account wash away vindicate verify unwrap unscramble unobstruct undeceive transfigure

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clarify · verb

Examples clarify examples

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Simple sentences

The teacher can show an example on the blackboard to clarify the type of answer expected.
I just want to clarify that.
Could you clarify the meaning of your sentence for me?
Tom attempted to clarify what he meant.
I'd like to clarify that.

Movie subtitles

Investigations prooved that they were accompanied by a man, whose identity is unkown. Police is working to clarify the case.
It took me all that time to gather my thoughts, to analyze my impulses and clarify our relationship.
Allow me to clarify.
I'm only trying to clarify your testimony.
I thought, why don't I leave it up to you, Professor Levin, to clarify a scientific problem we have.
I'll clarify that for you, Curtiss. I'm a rock-ribbed Republican. who thought that Franklin Roosevelt was a great man.
Now we'll clarify everything.
Perhaps the sight of your daughter's flesh being seared. will clarify your thinking.
Then there's no time to lose, we must clarify everything.
Colleagues, I proudly say that we convened again to clarify our ideas and to report the results of one year of research in the context of scientific progress.
Miss, would you kindly tell us, I mean produce one of those bubbles to clarify everything?
Some ambiguities of behavior I should like to clarify, hardly charges.
Ann. Now clarify the image.
We were just trying to clarify some of the evidence.
Your Honor, may I clarify this entire problem?
Bear with me, Your Honor, I want to clarify the point.
Perhaps if you would clarify the nature of your business, sir.
Please clarify that statement.
Allow me to clarify. Lady Beekman's tiara has been reported as stolen.
Clarify where the ship is.
Well, let me clarify any misunderstanding.
Let me clarify this.
The Sun, Uranus and Saturn will help you clarify important plans.
Captain, I've had a rather traumatic little experience which you may be able to clarify for me.
Some ambiguities of behaviour I should like to clarify, hardly charges.
Police is working to clarify the case.
Oh, it was also of concern to me to clarify the relationship between Teruo and me.
Shall I clarify it?
I hardly have the time now to explain it, but maybe I can briefly clarify it.
Guys, let's clarify one thing right now.
I'm not trying to bother you, just trying to clarify everything. Ah, I know.
It will be asked to clarify what his fiancee.
Come here and let's clarify things eventually.
Does that clarify the situation?
That is, I thought, it would be easier like this. Absolutely. But I'd like to clarify one other thing.
You can clarify what you used to eat there.

News and current affairs

When asked why they do not clarify their claims, my Chinese interlocutors sometimes say that to do so would require difficult political and bureaucratic compromises that would provoke domestic nationalists.
So I welcomed the chance to clarify my thinking.
Economics can at best clarify the choices for policy makers; it cannot make those choices for them.
A better approach is to identify the issues that arise in thinking about terrorism and clarify why people experience terror from certain acts of violence.
In fact, if, on the eve of the 2009 European Parliament elections, the new Reform Treaty enters into force, each member country will be forced to clarify and justify its position.
In order to answer this question one has to clarify that there are two ways of interpreting the nature of the European Union.
First, governments should better clarify the sources of funding behind each particular investment.
But what is the phenomenon that such explanations are supposed to clarify?
Others have to fight endlessly in order to obtain their construction permit from a myriad of government authorities, or clarify their property rights to the land they wish to build on.
The EU should also negotiate a framework document in the context of the next Partnership and Cooperation Agreement negotiations in order to clarify the obligations contained in the Treaty, in particular its Transit Protocol.
The Evian Summit will clarify whether greed, ignorance, and the bombast of war have closed the eyes of the US entirely, and whether Europe and Japan will look inward rather than outward.
When the dispute over Mischief Reef erupted, Chinese officials failed to clarify the meaning of the nine-dashed line, but, when pressed, they agreed that the dashes demarcated areas where China had sovereign claims.
Pragmatic steps to clarify the FSB's mandate and enhance its operational effectiveness can and should be taken.
Europe's left must still clarify its vision of the future.
Its leaders need to simplify and clarify an agenda that risks becoming too complex to manage.
The Fed will clarify the direction of US monetary policy.
Leaders must explain and clarify.
We must clarify the nature of what must be done to secure governance that is both democratic and as effective as circumstances require.
So it is necessary to clarify what is at stake in how we regulate - or de-regulate - in vitro fertilization (IVF), egg sales, and surrogacy.
Second, the eurozone, led by a Germany that is working closely with France, needs to clarify decisively what it intends to look like in the medium term.
It seems important, therefore, to clarify the differences between hate speech and blasphemy.
Pressed to clarify, the Palestinians admitted that there is no written promise to this effect.
The proposals also clarify Brussels' jurisdiction in relation to national competition authorities: mergers requiring a review by three or more national authorities will go automatically to Brussels.
National MPs and MEPs should come together quickly and clarify their relationship.
After the Dayton Agreement of Bosnia an International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) was established to clarify what had happened to the more than 20,000 persons missing from the civil war in Bosnia.
For immunization of this sort to be successful, it is important to first clarify what can turn someone into a jihadi.

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