clear

1. (transitive) To remove obstructions, impediments or other unwanted items from.Examples: "Police took two hours to clear the road."; "If you clear the table, I'll wash up."; "“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action. Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable,[…]."transitive

2. (transitive) To remove (items or material) so as to leave something unobstructed or open.Examples: "Please clear all this stuff off the table."; "The loggers came and cleared the trees."; "[…] Aristotle has brought to explain his Doctrine of Substantial Forms, when he tells us that a Statue lies hid in a Block of Marble; and that the Art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous Matter, and removes the Rubbish."transitive

3. (intransitive) To leave abruptly; to clear off or clear out.Examples: "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."intransitive

4. (intransitive) To become free from obstruction or obscurement; to become transparent.Examples: "When the road cleared we continued our journey."; "After a heavy rain, the sky cleared nicely for the evening."; "Shake the test tube well, and the liquid should slowly clear."intransitive

5. (transitive) To eliminate ambiguity or doubt from (a matter); to clarify or resolve; to clear up.Examples: "We need to clear this issue once and for all."transitive

6. (transitive) To remove from suspicion, especially of having committed a crime.Examples: "The court cleared the man of murder."; "[…] yet I appeal to the reader, and am sure he will clear me from Partiality."; "How! Wouldst thou clear rebellion?"transitive

1. (carpentry) Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls.Examples: "a room ten feet square in the clear"

2. (video games) The completion of a stage or challenge, or of the whole game.Examples: "It took me weeks to achieve a one-credit clear (1CC)."

3. (Scientology) A person who is free from the influence of engrams.Examples: "Neither of them had heard of Kelly or Kalki, but then neither of them had heard of Horace, Alexander Pope, [Blaise] Pascal, [Denis] Diderot, [Werner] Heisenberg’s law or entropy. Their lives were spent, successfully, repelling information. They were perfect “clears,” to use Scientologist jargon."; "Today, clear status can be conferred only by high ranking ministers of the church, and clears are not presented for examination by outsiders."

1. (Scientology) An idea state of beingness free of unwanted influences.uncountable