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clear one's lines

clear one's lines verb: to clear the ball away from a dangerous position.

Verb

clear one's lines (third-person singular simple present clears one's lines, present participle clearing one's lines, simple past and past participle cleared one's lines)

  1. (idiomatic) To clear the ball away from a dangerous position.
    • The Canaries went ahead when the home defence failed to clear their lines and Pilkington was on hand to slide in his eighth goal of the campaign.2012 April 9, Mandeep Sanghera, “Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich”, in BBC Sport

Forms of clear one's lines

third-person singular presentclears one's lines
present participleclearing one's lines
past participlecleared one's lines
pastcleared one's lines

Questions about clear one's lines

What does clear one's lines mean?
Clear one's lines means to clear the ball away from a dangerous position.
What part of speech is clear one's lines?
Clear one's lines is a verb.
What is the past tense of clear one's lines?
The past tense of clear one's lines is cleared one's lines.

Words near clear one's lines in the dictionary

  1. Clear Lake
  2. Clear Lake gnat
  3. Clear Lake gnats
  4. Clear Net
  5. clear off
  6. clear one's lines
  7. clear one's throat
  8. clear out
  9. clear quartz
  10. clear quartzes
  11. Clear Range

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