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
25 December 2024
(adjective) having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; “As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous”- Mario Vargas Llosa
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
