Definition of clarify

"clarify" in the verb sense

1. clarify, clear up, elucidate

make clear and (more) comprehensible

"clarify the mystery surrounding her death"

2. clarify

make clear by removing impurities or solids, as by heating

"clarify the butter"

"clarify beer"

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Quotations for clarify

Afflictions clarify the soul,
And like hard masters, give more hard directions,
Tutoring the non-age of uncurbed affections. [ Quarles ]

The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They do not pin the reader to a dogma which he must afterwards discover to be inexact; they do not teach him a lesson which he must afterwards unlearn. They repeat, they rearrange, they clarify the lessons of life. [ R. L, Stevenson ]

The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, but with a singular change - that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, nonce, struck out. [ Robert Louis Stevenson ]

clarify in Scrabble®

The word clarify is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 15

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters clarify:

CLARIFY
(110 = 60 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word clarify

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In clarify

CLARIFY
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CLARIFY
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CLARIFY
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CLARIFY
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clarify in Words With Friends™

The word clarify is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 16

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters clarify:

CLARIFY
(113 = 78 + 35)
CLARIFY
(113 = 78 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

clarify

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word clarify

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In clarify

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Words within the letters of clarify

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3 letter words in clarify (14 words)

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6 letter words in clarify (2 words)

7 letter words in clarify (1 word)

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