Clear I Cleared Meaning Illness Condition Acne Improves

Meaning: If an illness or a condition like acne clears up, it improves until it's no longer a problem.

• clear up As soon as I stopped swimming in the pool my skin cleared up, so something in the water must have been causing the rash.
  
  
• clear up sth I bought some special Vitamin E cream to get rid of my pimples, and within a couple of weeks most of them had cleared up.