clarify

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To make clear or easier to understand; elucidate: clarified her intentions.
2. v. To clear of confusion or uncertainty: clarify the mind.
3. v. To make clear by removing impurities or solid matter, as by heating gently or filtering: clarify butter.
4. v. To become clear.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To glorify.
2. To make clear; especially, purify from feculent matter; defecate; fine: applied particularly to liquors: as, to clarify wine or saccharine syrup. See clarification.
3. To brighten; purify; make clear, in a figurative sense; free from obscurities or defects; render luminous; render intelligent or intelligible.
4. To grow or become clear or free from feculent matter; become pure, as liquors: as, cider clarifies by fermentation.
5. To become clear intellectually; grow clear or perspicuous.

Wiktionary

1. v. To make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; -- said of liquids, as wine or syrup.
2. v. To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
3. v. ergative To grow or become clear or transparent; to become free from feculent impurities, as wine or other liquid under clarification.
4. v. ergative To grow clear or bright; to clear up.
5. v. obsolete To glorify.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; -- said of liquids, as wine or sirup.
2. v. To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.
3. v. obsolete To glorify.
4. v. To grow or become clear or transparent; to become free from feculent impurities, as wine or other liquid under clarification.
5. v. To grow clear or bright; to clear up.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. make clear by removing impurities or solids, as by heating
2. v. make clear and (more) comprehensible