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clarify
verb, tr & intr clarifies, clarified, clarifying
    1. To make or become clearer or easier to understand.
      Thesaurus: explain, interpret, elucidate, explicate, define, simplify, decipher.
    2. Said of butter, fat, etc: to make or become clear by heating.
Derivative: clarification
noun
    The process of making clear.
      Thesaurus: illumination, explanation, definition, elucidation, simplification, exposition, gloss, interpretation; Antonym: obfuscation.
Derivative: clarifier
noun
    Etymology: 19c in this sense: from Latin clarus clear.



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