clarified

1. 1
   adjective

   Rendered clear or transparent, with cloudiness, sediment, or impurities removed.

   Many sauces start with a clarified stock for a cleaner flavor and appearance.

   The winemaker poured off the clarified liquid, leaving the sediment behind.

   Similarclear, purified, filtered, refined

   Oppositecloudy, murky, turbid

   Note

   This is above all a kitchen word. Clarified butter is butter with its water and impurities removed, and the adjective describes stocks and liquids made clear in the same way. Before a noun it usually describes a substance. In a phrase like the clarified rules, the word is better read as the past participle of clarify in its "explain" sense.

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of clarify.

   The minister clarified her remarks after the press conference.

   Once the rules were clarified, the dispute came to an end.

   Note

   One spelling does two jobs: the simple past (she clarified the point) and the participle after have or be (the point has been clarified). The y of clarify becomes ie before -ed. The verb works with or without an object, so someone can clarify a liquid, or the liquid can clarify on its own. In older writing, clarified can also mean glorified, a sense now obsolete.

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