clears

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To remove obstructions, impediments or other unwanted items from.
   • Police took two hours to clear the road.
2. (transitive) To remove (items or material) so as to leave something unobstructed or open.
   • Please clear all this stuff off the table.

   Synonyms:

   stub

3. (intransitive) To leave abruptly; to clear off or clear out.
   • Then the whole population cleared into the forest, expecting all kinds of calamities to happen, while, on the other hand, the steamer Fresleven commanded left also in a bad panic, in charge of the engineer, I believe.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 199
4. (intransitive) To become free from obstruction or obscurement; to become transparent.
   • When the road cleared we continued our journey.
5. (transitive) To eliminate ambiguity or doubt from (a matter); to clarify or resolve; to clear up.
   • We need to clear this issue once and for all.
6. (transitive) To remove from suspicion, especially of having committed a crime.
   • The court cleared the man of murder.

   Synonyms:

   absolve, exonerate, vindicate, acquittance, assoil, assoilzie, acquit, disculp, disculpate, exculpate

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