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clarify: make clear by removing impurities or solids, as by heating; "clarify the butter"; "clarify beer"; make clear and (more) comprehensible; "clarify the mystery surrounding her death"

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uncoil collapse: unwind or untwist

unclutter collapse: rid of obstructions; "Clear your desk"

edulcorate collapse

spiritualize collapse: purify from the corrupting influences of the world; "During his stay at the ashram he was spiritualized"; give a spiritual meaning to; read in a spiritual sense

disinvolve collapse: free from involvement or entanglement; "How can I disentangle myself from her personal affairs?"

disembroil collapse

demythologize collapse: remove the mythical element from (writings); "the Bible should be demythologized and examined for its historical value"

vulgarize collapse: act in a vulgar manner; "The drunkard tends to vulgarize"

unwind collapse: reverse the winding or twisting of; "unwind a ball of yarn"; separate the tangles of

popularize collapse: make understandable to the general public; "Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books"; cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use; "They popularized coffee in Washington State"; "Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors"

elucidate collapse

untwist collapse: cause to become untwisted

unweave collapse: undo strands that have been woven together

expound collapse

put across collapse

explicate collapse: elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses; "Could you develop the ideas in your thesis"

get across collapse: communicate successfully; "I couldn't get across the message"; "He put over the idea very well"

cleanse collapse: clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing; "clean up before you see your grandparents"; "clean your fingernails before dinner"; purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins; "Purgatory is supposed to cleanse you from your sins"

unscramble collapse: make intelligible; "Can you unscramble the message?"

untangle collapse

unsnarl collapse

allegorize collapse: make into an allegory; "The story was allegorized over time"; interpret as an allegory

put over collapse

interpret collapse: make sense of; assign a meaning to; "What message do you see in this letter?"; "How do you interpret his behavior?"; give an interpretation or rendition of; "The pianist rendered the Beethoven sonata beautifully"

sublimate collapse: the product of vaporization of a solid; direct energy or urges into useful activities

make plain collapse

spell out collapse: make explicit; specify in detail; "You should spell out your demands"; spell fully and without abbreviating; "Can you spell out your middle name instead of just giving the initial?"

account for collapse: give reasons for; "Can you account for all these absences?"; be the reason or explanation for; "The recession accounts for the slow retail business"

distill collapse: give off (a liquid); "The doctor distilled a few drops of disinfectant onto the wound"; undergo the process of distillation; extract by the process of distillation; "distill the essence of this compound"

decipher collapse: read with difficulty; "Can you decipher this letter?"; "The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs"

exemplify collapse: clarify by giving an example of; be characteristic of; "This compositional style is exemplified by this fugue"

filter collapse: device that removes something from whatever passes through it; an electrical device that alters the frequency spectrum of signals passing through it; remove by passing through a filter; "filter out the impurities"

get over collapse: to bring (a necessary but unpleasant task) to an end; "Let's get this job over with"; "It's a question of getting over an unpleasant task"

ravel collapse: French composer and exponent of Impressionism (1875-1937); tangle or complicate; "a ravelled story"; disentangle; "can you unravel the mystery?"

illustrate collapse: supply with illustrations; "illustrate a book with drawings"; depict with an illustration

solve collapse: find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of; "did you solve the problem?"; "Work out your problems with the boss"; "this unpleasant situation isn't going to work itself out"; "did you get it?"; "Did you get my meaning?"; "He could not work the math problem"

purify collapse: remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation; "purify the water"; make pure or free from sin or guilt; "he left the monastery purified"; become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin; "The hippies came to the ashram in order to purify"

simplify collapse: make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extent; "We had to simplify the instructions"; "this move will simplify our lives"

make clear collapse

rationalize collapse: remove irrational quantities from; "This function can be rationalized"; think rationally; employ logic or reason; "When one wonders why one is doing certain things, one should rationalize"; structure and run according to rational or scientific principles in order to achieve desired results; "We rationalized the factory's production and raised profits"

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