Clear Up

Definition: Clear Up

Clear Up

Verb

1. Shed light on.

2. Finish a task completely; "I finally got through this homework assignment".

3. Free (the throat) by making a rasping sound; "Clear the throat".

4. Become clear; "The sky cleared after the storm.".

5. Make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear: "Could you clarify these remarks?"; "Clear up the question of who is at fault".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Clear Up

Intelligibility

Render intelligible; Adjective: popularize, simplify, clear up; elucidate; (explain).

Interpretation

Account for; find the cause, tell the cause; of; throw light upon, shed light upon, shed new light upon, shed fresh light upon; clear up, clarify, elucidate.

Crosswords: Clear Up

Now clear up them there shambles, or I'll feed you piecemeal to the rats in the cellar. (Long John Silver; writing credit: Martin Rackin; Robert Louis Stevenson)

Give me little time, help me clear up me mind (Red Red Wine; performing artist: UB40)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• En 30 Dias Piel Mas Tersa/How to Clear Up Your Face in 30 Days (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• When It's All Over We Still Have To Clear Up (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Poor white hallway, Georgetown, D.C. Seldom do these people have even the desire to clear up rubbish, and the broom shown here seems to be out of place. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

The appearance of this man had been enough fully to clear up the case, so obscure a moment before.

To clear up which I endeavored to give some ideas of the desire of power and riches, of the terrible effects of lust, intemperance, malice and envy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Antibiotics will clear up a bacterial infection. (references)

The first goal of treatment is to clear up any current infection. (references)

Some bleeding is normal, and it should clear up by the time you leave the hospital. (references)

Business

Given the increasing number of imported vehicles, the Ivoirian government has established a one-stop-shop to deal with all issues related to customs, control and inspection, and tax paperwork needed to clear up the goods definitively. (references)

Civil Liberties

Armenia

On September 7, more than a dozen security officers summoned Petros Makeyan, a participant in an unsanctioned protest rally against the introduction of per-minute phone payments, and the chairman of the "Democratic Motherland" Party, to their office to clear up certain questions. (references)

Economic History

Dominican Rep

The government has not fully lived up to the commitments it made, in connection with the partial-privatization of the energy sector, to clear up arrears owed to several independent power producers (IPPs), and to remain current with the new distribution companies on payments for its own use of electricity. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "clear up": clear up the kitchen ♦ To clear up. Additional references.

Albanian

rregulloj (accommodate, adjust, amend, arrange, attemper, compose, contrive, control, correct, debug, dispose, dispose of, do, fix up, model, modulate, order, patch up, rate, readjust, redress, regularize, regulate, repair, set right, set the tune, settle, shape, Spruce, straighten, tidy up, trim), qartësoj (clarify, focus), pastroj (abrade, char, clarify, clean, cleanse, defecate, depurate, deterge, eliminate, grub, gut, lustrate, pick, purge, rarefy, rectify, refine, scavenge, scour, scrub, sweep, try), kthjellohem (clear, sober), hapem (clear, flatten out, open, spread, step aside, unfold). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فسر (account for, clarify, clear, construe, elucidate, explain, explicate, expound, illustrate, interpret, make clear), ‏وضح (accentuate, clarify, define, elucidate, explain, illuminate, illustrate, light, lighten, puzzle out, ravel out, represent, spell, state), ‏حل (acquit, become, crack, detach, disband, disengage, disentangle, disintegrate, dismissal, dispensation, dissolve, exonerate, fix, free, hash, loose, ravel out, releasing, resolution, resolve, settle, settlement, settling, solution, solve, solvent, unbend, unclasp, uncoil, undo, undoing, unfasten, unfastening, unhook, untangle, untie, untwine, untying, unwind), ‏صحا (clear, sober). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разтребвам (clean, do, pick up, put away, tidy), изяснявам се (clarify, clear, crystallize, ravel). (various references)

Czech

ztratit se (astray, disappear, go, go away, lose oneself, make oneself scarce, stray), vysvìtlit (account for, air, define, elucidate, explain, explicate, expound, interpret, resolve, set light to), vyjasnit se (brighten, brighten up), vyèasit se (clear), uklidit (clean, clean up, do, straighten, tidy), rozřešit (figure out), objasnit (account for, clarify, elucidate, unravel), dodìlat (finish). (various references)

Danish

klare op (to brighten up, to clear up). (various references)

Dutch

weer opklaren (to brighten up, to clear up). (various references)

Finnish

selvittää (adjust, bring home, clarify, clear, disentangle, explain, liquidate, make clear, settle, solve, wind up), selvitä (become clear, brighten, escape, get off, recover, sober up), selvetä (become clear, clarify), seljetä (brighten), seestyä (brighten), puhdistaa (clean, cleanse, clear, polish, purge, purify, refine, tidy up), kirkastua (become clear, brighten). (various references)

French

se lever, résoudre, expliquer (clarify, clear). (various references)

German

aufklären (clarify, clear, disabuse, elucidate, enlighten, explain, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, resolve, shed light upon, solve, to clear up, to disabuse, undeceive). (various references)

Greek 

ξεκαθαρίζω (clarify, clear off, make clear, net, sort out). (various references)

Hungarian

tisztul (clarify, to clarify, to discharge), tisztáz (ascertain, copy, to clarify, to clear up, to demystify, to disclose the truth of a matter, to disentangle, to elicit, to elucidate, to exculpate, to exonerate, to get sg right, to purify, to sex, to solve, to straighten out, to throw light on, try out), megold (disentangle, resolve, solve, to clear up, to decipher, to ease, to hash out, to loose, to solve, to sort out, to tackle, to unloose, to unravel, to unriddle, to work out), kiderülni. (various references)

Indonesian

membereskan (arrange, tidy). (various references)

Italian

chiarire (become clear, clarify, clear, disabuse, elucidate, enlighten, explain, make clear, make light of, solve). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

明確 (clarify, define). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

めいかく (clarify, define). (various references)

Manx

cur reaghys er (sort out, tidy). (various references)

Pig Latin

earclay upay

Portuguese

decifrar (decipher, decode, find, guess, make out, read, resolve, spell out, unriddle, unscramble), arrumar (arrange, array, fettle, fix up, groom, pack up, pigeonhole, put in order, stow, straighten, tidy), aclarar (interpret, resolve). (various references)

Romanian

clarifica (account for, bring out, clarify, clear, define, disentangle, dissolve, explain, find out, irradiate, point out), termina (accomodate, accomplish, achieve, bring to an end, close, complete, conclude, do, end, finish, get over, have done, liquidate, mop up, pack it in, shoot away, spend, stop, terminate, wind up), se clarifica (clarify), descurca (disembroil, disentangle, free, unravel). (various references)

Russian 

выяснять (bring to light, clear, enucleate, explore the matter, get at, go into the matter, have out, inquire into, study out, thrash out). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

razvedriti se (brighten up, light up), razvedriti (brighten, lighten), razjasniti (clarify, undeceive). (various references)

Spanish

resolver (arrange, decide, detect, determine, dispose of, dissolve, get out, have out, resolve, settle, solve, think out, throw in, work out), esclarecer (to brighten), disipar (destroy, disband, disintegrate, dispel, disperse, dissipate, dissolve, remove, scatter, settle), aclararse (become clear, thin), aclarar (amplify, brighten, clarify, clear, elucidate, exemplify, explain, illuminate, illumine, illustrate, lighten, rinse, tell off, throw). (various references)

Swedish

utreda (analyse, inquire into, investigate). (various references)

Turkish

temizlemek (bump off, clarify, clean, clean out, clean up, cleanse, clear, decontaminate, depurate, do, do out, erase, excise, expurgate, get rid of, give smth. a sweep, gut, houseclean, mop up, purge, purify, rid, rub out, scavenge, swab down, sweep, swob down, tidy out, wipe away, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up), tasfiye etmek (close out, depurate, houseclean, liquidate, pay up, purge, revive, sell off, sell out, try out, wind up), tamamlamak (bring to completion, button up, catch up on, complement, complete, consummate, do, eke out, finalize, finish, fulfil, fulfill, go through with, implement, integrate, perfect, round off, round out, serve out, supplement, take up, work off, work up), halletmek (adjust, arrange, compound, dispatch, dispose of, dissolve, figure out, get things done, hurdle, lay on, lick, manage, overcome, polish off, resolve, solve, sort, sort out, Square, surmount, unriddle, untangle, untie, untwine, untwist, unzip, work out), bulmak (ascertain, cogitate, contrive, devise, discover, find, go for, happen on, happen upon, hit, invent, meet, obtain, procure, provide with, reach, reason, strike, strike out, study out, turn up), bilgi vermek (acquaint, apprise, charge, clear, clue, cue smb. in, enlighten, Gen, give directions, give smb. the dope, inform, keep informed, post, post up, state), aydınlatmak (brighten, charge, civilize, clear, clue, dissolve, elicit, elucidate, enlighten, enucleate, flash, flash on, illume, illuminate, illumine, irradiate, let daylight into smth., light, light up, lighten, post, rake up, set light to, shine upon, solve, unravel), aydınlanmak (become clear, brighten, clarify, dawn, illuminate, light, light up, lighten), açmak (bare, beat, bring up in conversation, bring up the subject, broach, cave, cave in, clear, clear away, clear off, cleave, cut, cut loose, dehisce, denude, dilate, dilute, disclose, disentangle, elaborate, evolve, expand, fade, inaugurate, institute, lay open, lead, lighten, loosen, loosen up, offer, open, open out, open up, pass, put up, ring up, shake out, sharpen, site, spread, spread out, strip, switch on, thaw, thaw out, throw open, tint, turn on, turn up, unbind, unbosom, unburden, uncase, unclasp, uncloak, unclose, unclothe, uncoil, uncover, uncross, uncurl, undo, unfold, unfurl, unhitch, unlock, unloose, unpack, unpin, unplait, unroll, unseal, unsnarl, unstop, untangle, unthread, untie, untwine, untwist, unwind, unwrap, usher in, whet, whiten, wind), açıklamak (account, account for, account for smth., clarify, clear, declare, declassify, deliver oneself, develop, dilate, dot the i's, elucidate, enucleate, evidence, explain, explicate, expound, express, get across, give smth. publicity, impart, intimate, lay open, make smth. clear, plead, render, set up, show, show forth, spit out, state, unclose, unfold, unveil), çözümlemek (analyse, analyze, construe, resolve, solve, sort, sort out). (various references)

Ukrainian

прояснюватися, давати лад (adjust, reinstate, straighten). (various references)

extrico, puta, putabam, putabant, putabantur, putabas, putabat, putabatur, putabis, putabitur, putamus, putandum, putans, putant, putare, putaremini, putaret, putas, putasne, putat, putationis, putatis, putaveris, putaverunt, putavi, putavimus, putavit, putes, putet, puto, sereno. (various references)

Misspellings

"Clear Up" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: clearup. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: apercu, carpel, culpae, parcel, placer, pleura.

-2 letters: caper, carle, clear, crape, cruel, culpa, cupel, lacer, lucre, pacer, paler, pareu, parle, pearl, place, puler, recap, ulcer, ureal.

-3 letters: acre, alec, aper, cape, care, carl, carp, caul, clap, clue, crap, cure, curl, earl, ecru, lace, leap, lear, luce, lure, pace, pale, pare, peal, pear, plea.

+1 letter: opercula, peculiar, specular.

+2 letters: curlpaper, opercular, parbuckle, peculator, peculiars, prelaunch.

+3 letters: apiculture, curlpapers, leprechaun, operculars, operculate, parbuckled, parbuckles, peculators, peculiarly, peduncular, pelycosaur, perceptual, precalculi, procedural, procurable, pronuclear, recoupable, republican, sepulchral, specularly, speculator, superclass, superclean, superflack, superscale.

+4 letters: apicultures, counterplan, counterplay, counterplea, crepuscular, exculpatory, leprechauns, operculated, particulate, peacefuller, peculiarity, pecuniarily, pelycosaurs, polynuclear, precalculus, prefectural, prejudicial, procedurals, purchasable, reduplicate, reproachful, republicans, spectacular, specularity, speculators, superficial, superflacks, superscales, thunderclap, unempirical.