Word.ws English Dictionary

clears the neighborhood

clears the neighborhood is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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)

  1. 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.
  2. 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

Questions about clears the neighborhood

What is clears the neighborhood the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Clears the neighborhood is the third-person singular simple present indicative of clear the neighborhood.

Words near clears the neighborhood in the dictionary

  1. clears one's lines
  2. clears one's throat
  3. clears out
  4. clears the air
  5. clears the market
  6. clears the neighborhood
  7. clears the table
  8. clears up
  9. clearsach
  10. clearsachs
  11. clearsighted

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: clears the neighborhood (page history and authors); clear the neighborhood (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “clears the neighborhood.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/clears_the_neighborhood. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.