clear-up
noun1
The act of clearing up
clear up
verbalso spelled clear-up/klɪəˈɹʌp/ · /kli.əˈɹʌp/
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To clarify, to correct a misconception.
2
To depart or disappear.
- All of their symptoms cleared up after the mold was removed.
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Of skin or medical images 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.
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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:
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UK 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:
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Ball games, Billiards, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Snooker, Sports To pot all of the remaining balls in a single turn.