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clear up

/klɪəˈɹʌp/

clear up verb: to clarify, to correct a misconception.

Verb

clear up (third-person singular simple present clears up, present participle clearing up, simple past and past participle cleared up)

  1. (transitive) To clarify, to correct a misconception.
  2. (intransitive) To depart or disappear.
    • All of their symptoms cleared up after the mold was removed.
  3. (intransitive) To become free of certain blemishes.
    • With the new cleanser, his skin cleared up in two weeks.
    • His lung X-rays cleared up after they moved to Arizona.
  4. (intransitive) Of stormy weather, to dissipate, to become calm.
    • Advise him to stay a little longer till the weather clears up.1731 (date written; published 1745), [Jonathan] Swift, Directions to Servants […], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley, […], and M. Cooper, […], →OCLC
  5. (UK, intransitive, transitive) To clean up.
    • Accepting that incidents will always happen, what then matters is how quickly we can clear up the mess, something British Rail was better at. [...] I would turn up as quickly as possible in the on-call Hillman Avenger and assess how quickly we could clear up.2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 43
  6. (intransitive) To pot all of the remaining balls in a single turn.

clear up meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

clear up in Tamil

ஐயம், சந்தேகம் தீர், தெளிவு பெறு, புயல் முதலியன அமைதியடைந்து நீங்குதல்

clear up in Malayalam

clear, brighten (up), lighten
തെളിയുക, പ്രകാശിക്കുക, തെളിച്ചമുണ്ടാകുക, പ്രസന്നമാകുക, ദീപ്തമാകുകക, പ്രകാശമുള്ളതായിത്തീരുക

clear up in Kannada

ಒಪ್ಪಮಾಡು, ಕಸಕಡ್ಡಿಗಳನ್ನು ತೆಗೆದುಹಾಕು, ಓರಣಗೊಳಿಸು

Forms of clear up

third-person singular presentclears up
present participleclearing up
past participlecleared up
pastcleared up

Questions about clear up

What does clear up mean?
Clear up means to clarify, to correct a misconception.
What is clear up in Tamil?
Clear up in Tamil is ஐயம், சந்தேகம் தீர், தெளிவு பெறு. See Clear up meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is clear up?
Clear up is a verb.
How do you pronounce clear up?
Clear up is pronounced /klɪəˈɹʌp/.
What is the past tense of clear up?
The past tense of clear up is cleared up.

Words near clear up in the dictionary

  1. clear the neighborhood
  2. clear the table
  3. clear the way
  4. clear title
  5. clear titles
  6. clear up
  7. clear view screen
  8. clear view screens
  9. Clear Web
  10. clear'd
  11. clear-air turbulence

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: clear up (page history and authors); clear up (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); clear up (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); clear up (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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