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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Clear \Clear\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Cleared}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Clearing}.]
1. To render bright, transparent, or undimmed; to free from clouds.
He sweeps the skies and clears the cloudy north. --Dryden.
2. To free from impurities; to clarify; to cleanse.
3. To free from obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of perplexity; to make perspicuous.
Many knotty points there are Which all discuss, but few can clear. --Prior.
4. To render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to make perspicacious.
Our common prints would clear up their understandings. --Addison
5. To free from impediment or incumbrance, from defilement, or from anything injurious, useless, or offensive; as, to clear land of trees or brushwood, or from stones; to clear the sight or the voice; to clear one's self from debt; -- often used with of, off, away, or out.
Clear your mind of cant. --Dr. Johnson.
A statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter. --Addison.
6. To free from the imputation of guilt; to justify, vindicate, or acquit; -- often used with from before the thing imputed.
I . . . am sure he will clear me from partiality. --Dryden.
How! wouldst thou clear rebellion? --Addison.
7. To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure; as, to clear a hedge; to clear a reef.
8. To gain without deduction; to net.
The profit which she cleared on the cargo. --Macaulay.
{To clear a ship at the customhouse}, to exhibit the documents required by law, give bonds, or perform other acts requisite, and procure a permission to sail, and such papers as the law requires.
{To clear a ship for action}, or {To clear for action} (Naut.), to remove incumbrances from the decks, and prepare for an engagement.
{To clear the land} (Naut.), to gain such a distance from shore as to have sea room, and be out of danger from the land.
{To clear hawse} (Naut.), to disentangle the cables when twisted.
{To clear up}, to explain; to dispel, as doubts, cares or fears.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
cleared
adjective
1: rid of objects or obstructions such as e.g. trees and brush; "cleared land"; "cleared streets free of fallen trees and debris"; "a cleared passage through the underbrush"; "played poker on the cleared dining room table" [ant: {uncleared}]
2: freed from any question of guilt; "is absolved from all blame"; "was now clear of the charge of cowardice"; "his official honor is vindicated" [syn: {absolved}, {clear}, {exculpated}, {exonerated}, {vindicated}]
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