disambiguate vs clear up

disambiguate and clear up both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
disambiguate	No	No	Yes	No
clear up	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, clear up is a hypernym of disambiguate; that is, clear up is a word with a broader meaning than disambiguate:

Other hypernyms of disambiguate include clarify, elucidate.

disambiguate (verb)	clear up (verb)
state unambiguously or remove ambiguities from	free (the throat) by making a rasping sound
	finish a task completely
	make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear
	make clear and (more) comprehensible
	become clear