Clear lie about end of malpractice (5)
I believe the answer is:
reset
'clear' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both related to change as well as being verbs in their base form.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'lie about end of malpractice' is the wordplay.
'lie' becomes 'rest' (synonyms).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'end of malpractice' becomes 'e' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'rest' enclosing 'e' is 'RESET'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for reset that I've seen before include "Replace, resettle or put back again" , "Turn back to zero" , "Restore to required state" , "Restore to original state" , "Changed reading" .)