Usually means: Make something less confusing, mysterious.
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  1. demystify: Merriam-Webster
  2. demystify: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. demystify: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. demystify: Collins English Dictionary
  5. demystify: Vocabulary.com
  6. Demystify, demystify: Wordnik
  7. demystify: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. demystify: Wiktionary
  9. demystify: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. demystify: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. demystify: Dictionary.com
  12. demystify: Rhymezone
  13. demystify: FreeDictionary.org
  14. demystify: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. demystify: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. demystify: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To remove the mystery from something; to explain or clarify.

Similar:
clarify, remystify, deconfuse, untangle, clear, clear up, elucidate, deobfuscate, explain, unwonder, more...

Opposite:
mystify, mystique

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Similar:
clarify, remystify, deconfuse, untangle, clear, clear up, elucidate, deobfuscate, explain, unwonder, more...

Opposite:
mystify, mystique

Colors:
    white,     light blue,     silver,     pale yellow,     soft green, more...



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