cleared the neighborhood
cleared the neighborhood is the simple past and past participle of clear the neighborhood.
Meaning of clear the neighborhood
Verb
clear the neighborhood (third-person singular simple present clears the neighborhood, present participle clearing the neighborhood, simple past and past participle cleared the neighborhood)
- To become gravitationally dominant, such that there are no other bodies of comparable size within its orbit, other than its natural satellites or those otherwise under its gravitational influence.
- Clearing the neighborhood is one of three necessary criteria for a celestial body to be considered a planet in the Solar System, according to the definition adopted in 2006 by the International Astronomical Union.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see clear, the, neighborhood.
- He clears the neighborhood and drives toward the busier part of town, unaware he's doing fifty till he skids to meet a red light.2013 February 5, Dennis Mahoney, Fellow Mortals: A Novel, Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 73
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- Cleared the neighborhood is the simple past and past participle of clear the neighborhood.
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