(1) [clear]: clear up; clear [adjective]

The water in a pool is green and clear

(2) [clear up; clarify]: to show the truth; to remove confusion or ambiguity [verb]

The golden monkey rises up with a thousand cudgels, and the jade clarifies ten thousand leagues. --Mao Zedong's "Seven Rhymes - and Comrade Guo Moruo"

(3) to clarify (an understanding, a problem, etc.) [verb]

We must clarify the facts.

Clarify dèng qīng

(1) [clarify;become clear] impurities precipitate, liquid becomes clear

This creek has too much sand and gravel and needs to be clarified before it can be used to irrigate the seedlings

(2) See also chéng qīng

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clarification the process of removing impurities from water by contact with a highly concentrated layer of sediment.

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In glass product processing:

Clarification is the stage in the glass melting process when the addition of a clarifying agent reduces the viscosity of the glass and begins to release gaseous mixtures.

Near-synonyms clean bright clear clarified clarifying clarifying fresh

Antonyms turbid muddy dirty