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clarify

verbeattesté dans les dialogues

  • Royaume-Uni//ˈklæɹ.ɪ.faɪ//
  • Royaume-Uni//ˈklæɹ.ə.faɪ//
  • Canada//ˈklɛɹ.ɪ.faɪ//
  • Canada//ˈklɛɹ.ə.faɪ//
  • Australie//ˈklæɹ.ɪ.fɑɪ//

To make or become clear or bright by freeing from impurities or turbidity.

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  1. 1

    To make or become clear or bright by freeing from impurities or turbidity.

    What's the best way to clarify cooking oil?

    Leave the wine for 24 hours and it will clarify.

  2. 2

    To make or become clear or easily understood; to explain or resolve in order to remove doubt or obscurity.

    Please clarify what you mean by this.

    Over time, the situation gradually clarified.

    To clarify his reason, to rectify his will.

    We assimilate cultural interpretations based on the value our cultural editors determine and the level of abundance we are allowed to have without violating tribal horizons. I should clarify that I am not suggesting that we are passive recipients of everything the cultural editors tell us about ourselves.

  3. 3

    obsolèteTo glorify.

Étymologie

From Middle English clarifien, from Old French clarifiier, from Latin clārificō, clārificāre; clārus (“clear”) + faciō, facere (“make”). Semantically clear + -ify.

Formes

passé
clarified
participe passé
clarified
participe présent
clarifying
3ᵉ personne du singulier
clarifies
Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).