TO CLEAR UP

Definition: TO CLEAR UP

TO CLEAR UP

1. To explain; to dispel, as doubts, cares or fears.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: TO CLEAR UP

Music

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

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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.

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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

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

The doctor may prescribe an antibiotic to clear up an infection and suggest drinking more fluids to prevent further infections. (references)

If your gastritis is related to an illness or infection, that problem will have to be treated as well. For example, the doctor will prescribe antibiotics to clear up a bacterial infection or vitamin B12 to treat anemia. (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)

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Danish

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

Dutch

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

French

s'éclairir (to brighten up). (various references)

German

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

Greek 

φωτίζομαι (light up). (various references)

Hungarian

kitisztul (become clear, clarify, to clarify, to fine), kitakarít (clean, clean out, clear out, tidy up, to clean, to clean up, to defecate, to do out, to make up, to tidy, to tidy up), kiderít (ascertain, bring to light, detect, to ascertain, to elicit, to find out, to nose out). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

霽れる , 晴れ渡る (to be refreshed), 晴れ上がる . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

はれわたる (to be refreshed), はれあがる (to swell up), はれる (to be sunny, to become swollen, to clear away, to stop raining, to swell). (various references)

Pig Latin

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: peculator.

-1 letter: copulate, opercula, outcaper, pectoral.

-2 letters: caltrop, capture, cloture, clouter, copulae, copular, coulter, coupler, couplet, locater, octuple, outleap, outpace, outrace, plectra, polecat, poulter, prolate, torulae.

-3 letters: acuter, apercu, caplet, capote, captor, carpel, carpet, cartel, cartop, claret, coaler, coater, colter, colure, copter, copula, coteau, couple, couter, croupe, culpae, cupola, curate, curtal, cutler, lector, locate, ocular.

+1 letter: operculate, peculators, speculator.

+2 letters: counterplan, counterplay, counterplea, exculpatory, operculated, speculators.

+3 letters: counterplans, counterplays, counterpleas, inoperculate, photonuclear, plutocracies, proconsulate, prosecutable.

+4 letters: claustrophobe, counterplayer, inoperculates, overspeculate, precopulatory, proconsulates, prosecutorial, reduplication, republication, unproblematic.

+5 letters: claustrophobes, computerizable, conceptualizer, counterexample, counterplayers, hepatocellular, nonspectacular, overparticular, overspeculated, overspeculates, percutaneously, pertinaciously, prepublication, recapitulation, reduplications, republications, ultracompetent, ultraprecision.

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