HOW TO PRONOUNCE
clarify
/ˈklæɹ.ɪ.faɪ/
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What does clarify mean?
verb
- To make or become clear or bright by freeing from impurities or turbidity.
- To make or become clear or easily understood; to explain or resolve in order to remove doubt or obscurity.
More meanings (1)
verb
- (obsolete) To glorify.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈklæɹ.ɪ.faɪ/
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/ˈklæɹ.ə.faɪ//ˈklɛɹ.ɪ.faɪ//ˈklɛɹ.ə.faɪ/
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Till cunning come to pound and squeeze And clarify,--refine to proof *2* The liquor filtered by degrees, While the world stands aloof.
It is the functioning of an abstraction in its application to a new concrete experience,--its extension to clarify and direct new situations.
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The sound of it seemed to clarify his muddled thoughts; and as they ranged themselves in order, he began to understand.
What is said in Pennsylvania may clarify an issue in California, and what is suppressed in California may leave us the worse in Pennsylvania.
I did not offer the plan, of course, as a contribution to practical politics, but merely as a sort of hypothesis, to help clarify the problem.