clear, clear up, shed light on, crystallize, crystallise, crystalize, crystalise, straighten out, sort out, enlighten, illuminate, elucidate
(verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear; “Could you clarify these remarks?”; “Clear up the question of who is at fault”
clarify, clear up, elucidate
(verb) make clear and (more) comprehensible; “clarify the mystery surrounding her death”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
elucidate (third-person singular simple present elucidates, present participle elucidating, simple past and past participle elucidated)
(transitive) To make clear; to clarify; to shed light upon.
Synonyms: explicate, illuminate
Source: Wiktionary
E*lu"ci*date, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Elucidated; p. pr. & vb. n. Elucidating.] Etym: [LL. elucidatus, p. p. of elucidare; e + lucidus full of light, clear. See Lucid.]
Definition: To make clear or manifest; to render more intelligible; to illustrate; as, an example will elucidate the subject.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
19 April 2025
(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
