Usually means: Resolve misunderstandings, improve communication atmosphere.
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  1. clear the air: Merriam-Webster
  2. clear the air: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. clear the air: Collins English Dictionary
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  5. clear the air: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. clear the air: Wiktionary
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  8. Clear the Air (Hong Kong): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  10. clear the air: FreeDictionary.org
  11. clear the air: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. clear the air: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. clear the air: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. clear the air: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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  1. clear the air: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (clear the air)

▸ verb:  (idiomatic) To assuage a hostile or uncomfortable situation.

Similar:
clear, clear up, assoil, straighten out, air out, pacify, appease, smooth over, acquit, assuage, more...

Opposite:
muddle air, cloud issue, confuse matter

Types:
reconcile, resolve, settle, clear up, more...

Phrases:
clear the air of, more...

Adjectives:
relief, levigate, palliate, relieved, alleviated, relent, loosened, slaked, extenuate, mitigatory, alight

Colors:
    blue,     white,     light blue,     sky blue,     turquoise, more...

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Similar:
clear, clear up, assoil, straighten out, air out, pacify, appease, smooth over, acquit, assuage, more...

Opposite:
muddle air, cloud issue, confuse matter

Types:
reconcile, resolve, settle, clear up, more...

Phrases:
clear the air of, more...

Adjectives:
relief, levigate, palliate, relieved, alleviated, relent, loosened, slaked, extenuate, mitigatory, alight

Colors:
    blue,     white,     light blue,     sky blue,     turquoise, more...



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