clear
adjective, clear·er, clear·est.
- (of an l-sound) having front-vowel resonance; situated before a vowel in the same syllable.Compare dark(def 16a).
- (of a speech sound) produced without frication or aspiration.
adverb, clear·er, clear·est.
verb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
- to comply with customs and other requirements legally imposed on entering or leaving a port (often followed by in or out).
- to leave port after having complied with such requirements.
noun
Verb Phrases
- to remove in order to make room.
- to leave; escape: We were warned to clear off before the floods came.
- to disappear; vanish: When the smoke cleared away, we saw that the house was in ruins.
- to remove the contents of: Clear out the closet.
- to remove; take away: Clear out your clothes from the closet.
- to go away, especially quickly or abruptly.
- to drive or force out: The police cleared out the pickets by force.
- to make clear; explain; solve.
- to put in order; tidy up.
- to become better or brighter, as the weather.
Idioms for clear
- absolved of blame or guilt; free: He was suspected of the theft, but evidence put him in the clear.
- en clair.
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Example sentences from the Web for clear
The story of fluoridation reads like a postmodern fable, and the moral is clear: a scientific discovery might seem like a boon.
Instead, straighten your civic backbone and push back in clear conscience.
Or has the see and hear and speak-no-evil stance of the Republican House persuaded him that he is in the clear?
We want to give the families and the other cops, too, as clear a picture as we can.
Along the way, Brinsley turned into a drug store, but it is not clear whether he bought anything.
It was Luke Marner himself who was going to America, and was going to write home to clear him.
Through the Fray |G. A. HentyIt is not yet clear, partly because the doctors disagree as to what immunity is.
Applied Eugenics |Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill JohnsonInfinite—this word is by no means the expression of a clear idea: it is merely the expression of an effort to attain one.
After this she was gentler still, but she had another point to clear up.
The Spoils of Poynton |Henry JamesA boat being lowered, he was taken on board, but it was clear to him that he was regarded with much suspicion.
In the Track of the Troops |R.M. Ballantyne
British Dictionary definitions for clear
adjective
adverb
noun
- free of suspicion, guilt, or blame
- sport able to receive a pass without being tackled
verb
- (of the weather) to become free from dullness, fog, rain, etc
- (of mist, fog, etc) to disappear
- to achieve transmission of (a signalled message) and acknowledgment of its receipt at its destination
- to decode (a message, etc)
Derived forms of clear
clearable, adjective clearer, noun clearness, nounWord Origin for clear
Idioms and Phrases with clear
In addition to the idioms beginning with clear
- clear as a bell
- clear as crystal
- clear as mud
- clear away
- clear off
- clear one's name
- clear out
- clear the air
- clear the decks
- clear the table
- clear up
- clear with
also see:
- coast is clear
- free and clear
- have a clear conscience
- in the clear
- loud and clear
- out of a clear blue sky
- see one's way (clear)
- steer clear of