To rid of impurities, blemishes, muddiness, or foreign matter.
To free from confusion, question, or ambiguity; make ordinary or intelligible: cleared up issue of duty.
To eliminate objects or obstructions: obvious the table; clear the trail of dirt.
In order to make (a means or clearing) by removing obstructions: clear a path through jungle.
To remove (objects or obstructions): clear the bathroom; clear snow from the roadway.
To remove the occupants of: obvious the movie theater.
To remove (men and women): clear the kids from the room.
Sports to go or capture (a ball or puck) away from the objective or out of the defensive zone.
Sports To clear a puck away from (the defensive zone), such as ice hockey.
Computer Science To rid (a memory area or buffer, for instance) of instructions or data.
Computer Science To remove (instructions or information) from memory.
To free of a legal charge or imputation of shame; acquit: cleared the suspect of the murder fee.
to pass through by, under, or over without contact: The watercraft eliminated the dock.
to stay (a debt).
to achieve (confirmed quantity) as web revenue or earnings.
To pass (a bill of exchange, eg a check) through a clearing-house.
To secure the endorsement of: The bill eliminated the Senate.
To authorize or approve: cleared the material for publication.
To free (a ship or cargo) from appropriate detention at a harbor by satisfying customs and harbor demands.
to provide clearance or consent to: cleared the jet to land.
To release (the throat) of phlegm through a rasping noise.
To make brilliant, clear, or undimmed; to free from clouds.
To free of impurities; to make clear; to clean.
To clear of obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of perplexity; in order to make perspicuous.
To render much more quick or acute, as comprehension; which will make perspicacious.
To clear of obstacle or incumbrance, from defilement, or from something injurious, worthless, or offensive; ; -- often used in combination with of, off, away, or away.
To without the imputation of shame; to justify, vindicate, or acquit; -- usually used in combination with off prior to the thing imputed.
To jump or pass-by, or over, without touching or failure.
Full extent; distance between extreme limits; specifically; the length involving the closest areas of two-bodies, or even the room between walls.
In carp., arch., etc., unobstructed area; area between two bodies in which no third human body intervenes; unbroken or uninterrupted area: used only within the expression inside clear: since, it steps fifty legs within the clear.
That which is clarified; clarified liquor or other matter.
Light; clearness.
In botany, an open room.
an obvious or unobstructed area or expanse of land or water
free of darkness or opacity; bright; brilliant; luminous; unclouded; perhaps not obscured.
Free from whatever would impair transparency or purity of shade; pellucid; clear: as, uncontaminated water; an obvious complexion.
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In glass-working, without etching, depolish, or something which could dull the surface. Objects partly depolished are considered half-clear.
perhaps not perplexed or dull; quick and precise doing his thing, since the brain or its traits; acute, due to the fact senses: as, an obvious mind; a clear mind.
Manifest into the mind; comprehensible; well defined or apprehended.
Obvious into senses; distinctly and simply perceptible.
without whatever perturbs; undisturbed by treatment or passion; unruffled; serene; relaxed.
without guilt or fault; morally unblemished; irreproachable; pure.
clear of anything objectionable, especially from entanglement or shame; without accusation or imputation, stress, imprisonment, or perhaps the love: absolute or followed closely by of or from.
clear of obstacle or obstruction; unobstructed: as, a definite view.
Sounding distinctly; plainly audible; canorous: since, his vocals was noisy and obvious.
Without diminution or deduction; absolute; net: as, clear profit or gain.
Without admixture, adulteration, or dilution: because, a fabric of clear silk; clear brandy; obvious beverage.
demonstrably; clearly; perhaps not obscurely; manifestly.
Quite; entirely; wholly; clean: as, to cut a bit clear down; he climbed obvious toward top.
to eliminate whatever diminishes brightness, transparency, or purity of color from: as, to obvious liquors; to clear a mirror; to clear the sky.
which will make obvious on head; clear of obscurity, perplexity, or ambiguity; describe; resolve; show: now usually accompanied by up, or by from or of prior to the thing removed: since, to clear up an incident; to clear a theory from doubt; to clear a statement of complicated details.
To free of obstructions; clear of any obstacle or encumbrance, or from anything useless, noxious, or damaging: as, to clear just how; to clear the dining table; to clear the ocean of pirates; to obvious land of trees; to clear the vocals.
To without foreign or extraneous matter; pull such a thing from that impairs purity or homogeneity.
To Eliminate (a thing that has ceased to-be wanted, or perhaps is of the nature of an encumbrance, obstacle, or obstruction): with off, away, etc.: as, to clear down debts; to eliminate the débris.
To bare.
To release; liberate or disengage; rid: definitely or with of or from: as, to clear an individual's self from financial obligation or responsibility.
To justify or vindicate; prove or declare to be innocent; acquit.
In order to make gain or revenue toward level of, beyond all expenditures and costs; net.
To leap clean over, or go by without touching; get over or past: as, to clear a hedge or ditch; to clear a rock at water by a few yards.
Nautical and com., to clear of legal detention, as brought in goods or a ship, by paying obligations or dues and procuring and providing the requisite papers: since, to clear a cargo; to clear a ship on custom-house.
To become clear of whatever diminishes brightness or transparency, whilst the sky from clouds or fog; become fair: absolutely or with up or off.
to pass through away or vanish, as from sky: followed closely by down or away: as, the mist clears off or away.
3. Become disengaged from encumbrances, distress, or entanglements; become no-cost or disengaged.
to change checks and expenses, and settle balances, as it is carried out in clearing-houses. See clearing-house.
Nautical, to leave a port: often followed closely by out or outward: since, a few vessels cleared yesterday; the ship will drive out or outward the next day.
In order to make space; subside.
In bookbinding, to get rid of the waste-paper and pare along the superfluous leather within a book-cover, preparatory to pasting ultimately documents.
A figure of speech in which the expression is an evident exaggeration of the meaning intended to be conveyed or by which things are represented as much greater or less better or worse than they really are a statement exaggerated fancifully through excitement or for effect...
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