'To clear up' definitions:
Definition of 'To clear up'
From: GCIDE
- Clear \Clear\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cleared; p. pr. & vb. n. Clearing.]
- 1. To render bright, transparent, or undimmed; to free from clouds. [1913 Webster]
- He sweeps the skies and clears the cloudy north. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To free from impurities; to clarify; to cleanse. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To free from obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of perplexity; to make perspicuous. [1913 Webster]
- Many knotty points there are Which all discuss, but few can clear. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to make perspicacious. [1913 Webster]
- Our common prints would clear up their understandings. --Addison [1913 Webster]
- 5. To free from impediment or incumbrance, from defilement, or from anything injurious, useless, or offensive; as, to clear land of trees or brushwood, or from stones; to clear the sight or the voice; to clear one's self from debt; -- often used with of, off, away, or out. [1913 Webster]
- Clear your mind of cant. --Dr. Johnson. [1913 Webster]
- A statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To free from the imputation of guilt; to justify, vindicate, or acquit; -- often used with from before the thing imputed. [1913 Webster]
- I . . . am sure he will clear me from partiality. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- How! wouldst thou clear rebellion? --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure; as, to clear a hedge; to clear a reef. [1913 Webster]
- 8. To gain without deduction; to net. [1913 Webster]
- The profit which she cleared on the cargo. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- To clear a ship at the customhouse, to exhibit the documents required by law, give bonds, or perform other acts requisite, and procure a permission to sail, and such papers as the law requires.
- To clear a ship for action, or To clear for action (Naut.), to remove incumbrances from the decks, and prepare for an engagement.
- To clear the land (Naut.), to gain such a distance from shore as to have sea room, and be out of danger from the land.
- To clear hawse (Naut.), to disentangle the cables when twisted.
- To clear up, to explain; to dispel, as doubts, cares or fears. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'To clear up'
- Clear,
- Cleared,
- Clearing,
- Clearly,
- Clearness,
- To clear out,
- all clear,
- clear off,
- clear out,
- clear up,
- in the clear,
- A clear breach,
- Clear Creek,
- Clear Lake,
- Clear Lake, IN,
- Clear Spring,
- Clear breach,
- Clear days,
- Clear stuff,
- Clearing house,
- Point Clear,
- The coast is clear,
- To clear for action,
- To clear hawse,
- To clear the decks,
- To clear the land,
- To get clear,
- clear away,
- clear distinct,
- clear sailing,
- clear sighted,
- clear the air,
- clear the decks,
- clear the throat,
- clear the way,
- cleared tilled,
- crystal clear,
- free and clear,
- loud and clear,
- make clear,
- steer clear of,
- Clear Creek County,
- Clear Creek, CO,
- Clear Lake Shores,
- Clear Lake, IA,
- Clear Lake, IL,
- Clear Lake, MN,
- Clear Lake, SD,
- Clear Lake, WA,
- Clear Lake, WI,
- Clear Spring, MD,
- Clear-cut,
- Clear-headed,
- Clear-headedness,
- Clear-seeing,
- Clear-shining,
- Clear-sighted,
- Clear-sightedness,
- Point Clear, AL,
- To clear a ship at the customhouse,
- To clear a ship for action,
- clear and present danger,
- clear liquid diet,
- clear-eyed,
- clear-thinking,
- Clear Creek County, CO,
- Clear Lake Shores, TX,
- clear-air turbulence