The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clear \Clear\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cleared; p. pr. & vb. n. Clearing.]
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To render bright, transparent, or undimmed; to free from clouds.
He sweeps the skies and clears the cloudy north.
--Dryden. To free from impurities; to clarify; to cleanse.
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To free from obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of perplexity; to make perspicuous.
Many knotty points there are Which all discuss, but few can clear.
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To render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to make perspicacious.
Our common prints would clear up their understandings.
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To free from impediment or incumbrance, from defilement, or from anything injurious, useless, or offensive; as, to clear land of trees or brushwood, or from stones; to clear the sight or the voice; to clear one's self from debt; -- often used with of, off, away, or out.
Clear your mind of cant.
--Dr. Johnson.A statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter.
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To free from the imputation of guilt; to justify, vindicate, or acquit; -- often used with from before the thing imputed.
I . . . am sure he will clear me from partiality.
--Dryden.How! wouldst thou clear rebellion?
--Addison. To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure; as, to clear a hedge; to clear a reef.
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To gain without deduction; to net.
The profit which she cleared on the cargo.
--Macaulay.To clear a ship at the customhouse, to exhibit the documents required by law, give bonds, or perform other acts requisite, and procure a permission to sail, and such papers as the law requires.
To clear a ship for action, or To clear for action (Naut.), to remove incumbrances from the decks, and prepare for an engagement.
To clear the land (Naut.), to gain such a distance from shore as to have sea room, and be out of danger from the land.
To clear hawse (Naut.), to disentangle the cables when twisted.
To clear up, to explain; to dispel, as doubts, cares or fears.
Usage examples of "to clear up".
As soon as we got the cabins in condition to be used, I determined to clear up some land so that we could plant a crop.
But if I promise to go, you must promise not to go near the window for an hour, and not to ask again to-day if I think it's going to clear up.
Since his first journey in 1954, he hops on planes to clear up his theories the way we catch a bus.
I know now isn't the time or the place, but it's something you could help us to clear up.
I want to clear up my desk and talk about taking a leave of absence.
He couldn't sit while she was standing, and he couldn't offer her a seat since the rest of the furniture in his study had been destroyed and he hadn't allowed Beale to clear up the mess.
It turned out to have all been an unfortunate mix-up, he said, completely poker-faced, but it took some time to clear up.
Getting them into a shelter would get them off the street long enough for Keighvin to clear up the little war with Vidal Dhu.