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Usage examples for clarify

1. To clarify it, put the dripping into a basin, pour over it boiling water, and keep stirring the whole to wash away the impurities. – The Book of Household Management by Mrs. Isabella Beeton

2. So she had hitherto reasoned; but now the girl's presence seemed to clarify her perceptions, and she told herself that something in Dick's nature, something which she herself had put there, would resist this short cut to safety, would make him take the more tortuous way to his goal rather than gain it through the privacies of the heart he loved. – Sanctuary by Edith Wharton