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Definitions of clear:

noun: the state of being free of suspicion
Example: "Investigation showed that he was in the clear"
noun: a clear or unobstructed space or expanse of land or water
verb: pass an inspection or receive authorization
Example: "Clear customs"
verb: pass by, over, or under without making contact
Example: "The balloon cleared the tree tops"
verb: go away or disappear
Example: "The fog cleared in the afternoon"
verb: sell
Example: "We cleared a lot of the old model cars"
verb: be debited and credited to the proper bank accounts
Example: "The check will clear within 2 business days"
verb: clear from impurities, blemishes, pollution, etc.
Example: "Clear the water before it can be drunk"
verb: free from payment of customs duties, as of a shipment
Example: "Clear the ship and let it dock"
verb: remove the occupants of
Example: "Clear the building"
verb: remove (people) from a building
Example: "Clear the patrons from the theater after the bomb threat"
verb: rid of instructions or data
Example: "Clear a memory buffer"
verb: make clear, bright, light, or translucent
Example: "The water had to be cleared through filtering"
verb: make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear
Example: "Clear up the question of who is at fault"
verb: settle, as of a debt
Example: "Clear a debt"
verb: free (the throat) by making a rasping sound
Example: "Clear the throat"
verb: remove
Example: "Clear the leaves from the lawn"
verb: make a way or path by removing objects
Example: "Clear a path through the dense forest"
verb: yield as a net profit
verb: go unchallenged; be approved
Example: "The bill cleared the House"
verb: become clear
Example: "The sky cleared after the storm"
verb: rid of obstructions
Example: "Clear your desk"
verb: earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
Example: "He clears $5,000 each month"
verb: pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
Example: "The suspect was cleared of the murder charges"
verb: make as a net profit
Example: "The company cleared $1 million"
verb: grant authorization or clearance for
Example: "Clear the manuscript for publication"
adjective: easily deciphered
adjective: clear of charges or deductions
Example: "A clear profit"
adjective: affording free passage or view
Example: "A clear view"
adjective: free from flaw or blemish or impurity
Example: "A clear perfect diamond"
adjective: characterized by freedom from troubling thoughts (especially guilt)
Example: "A clear conscience"
adjective: of complexion; without such blemishes as e.g. acne
Example: "The clear complexion of a healthy young woman"
adjective: clear to the mind
Example: "A clear and present danger"
adjective: free from cloudiness; allowing light to pass through
Example: "Clear water"
adjective: free from confusion or doubt
Example: "A complex problem requiring a clear head"
adjective: free from clouds or mist or haze
Example: "On a clear day"
adjective: characterized by ease and quickness in perceiving
Example: "Clear mind"
adjective: clear and distinct to the senses; easily perceptible
Example: "As clear as a whistle"
adjective: (especially of a title) free from any encumberance or limitation that presents a question of fact or law
Example: "I have clear title to this property"
adjective: freed from any question of guilt
Example: "Was now clear of the charge of cowardice"
adjective: (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims
Example: "Clear laughter like a waterfall"
adjective: free of restrictions or qualifications
Example: "A clear winner"
adjective: accurately stated or described
adverb: completely
Example: "Read the book clear to the end"
adverb: in an easily perceptible manner
Example: "Could be seen clearly under the microscope"
name: A surname (rare: 1 in 100000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #15232)

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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to clear: (398 results)
Synonyms:
absolved, acquit, all the way, assoil, authorise, authorize, bright, brighten, bring in, broad, clarify, clean, clean-cut, clean-handed, clear-cut, cleared, clearheaded, clearly, clear-thinking, clear up, cloudless, crystal clear, crystalline, crystallize, decipherable, discerning, discharge, distinct, earn, elucidate, enlighten, exculpate, exculpated, exonerate, exonerated, fair, free, gain, guiltless, hyaline, illuminate, innocent, legible, light, light up, limpid, liquid, lucid, luculent, make, net, nett, open, pass, pellucid, percipient, perfect, perspicuous, prima facie, pull in, pure, readable, realize, sack, sack up, semitransparent, serene, shed light on, shining, shiny, sort out, straighten out, sunny, sunshiny, take in, top, translucent, transparent, trenchant, unblemished, unclouded, unclutter, unencumbered, unfrosted, unmistakable, unmortgaged, unobstructed, unqualified, unsubtle, untroubled, vindicated, vivid, well-defined

More general:
allow, alter, area, benefit, change, come through, construe, countenance, country, determine, disembarrass, empty, go away, innocence, interpret, judge, let, overhaul, overtake, permit, profit, remove, rid, sell, settle, square off, square up, succeed, take, take away, vanish

More specific:
approbate, approve, bare, bear, bring home, certificate, certify, commission, declare, denudate, denude, eke out, empower, entitle, formalize, gross, hop, licence, license, okay, ok, pay, purge, rake in, rake off, sanction, shovel in, squeeze out, strip, take home, validate, whitewash, yield

Antonyms:
blur, bounce, cloud, cloudy, clutter, clutter up, confuse, convict, ill-defined, obscure, opaque, overcast

Often used in the same context:
obvious, simple, glass, chicks, clarity, decision, knows, mirror, smooth, bold, ending, focus, radio, shape, thee, wide

Appears in the definition of:
acer pennsylvanicum, ageratum, articulate, atrip, avoid, aweigh, azure, bangalore torpedo, bedazzle, blueish, blueness, bluish, bouillon, brainstorm, brainwave, bright blue, brilliant, buffer, burn off, callistephus chinensis, calochortus amabilis, cephalaspida, cerebrospinal fluid, cerulean, china aster, chlorophyceae, chlorophyte, clarified butter, clarifying, clarion, class chlorophyceae, clearness, clear-sighted, clear the throat, click, clinker, coconut milk, coherent, come home, confusion, conoclinium coelestinum, conodonta, conodontophorida, consomme, cowcatcher, dark-blue, dawn, daze, dazzle, decipherment, decoding, decryption, deforestation, dingy, dirty, disarray, display, distinctly, distinctness, downy yellow violet, drawn butter, drive home, dull, eccrine, effaceable, elucidative, engrossed, enigmatic, enigmatical, erasable, erythrina lysistemon, eschew, eupatorium coelestinum, explanatory, fall into place, fender, film over, florida pompano, focused, get across, get through, glaze over, golden cup, golden fairy lantern, goosefoot maple, green algae, h2o, hawk, hawk and spit, heterostraci, hog molly, hog sucker, hunnemania fumariifolia, hypentelium nigricans, hyperfocal distance, hypophosphorous acid, illustration, imagism, impression, incisive, incoherent, in focus, insight, insightful, kaffir boom, keen, knock, knowing, lactic acid, lead tetraethyl, light-blue, limpidity, limpidly, logical, lucidity, lucidly, lysol, manifestation, mental confusion, mental picture, mexican tulip poppy, milk, milklike, milky, mistflower, moosewood, muck, muddied, muddy, muffled, muted, opened, optical glass, order conodonta, order conodontophorida, order ostracodermi, orthophosphorous acid, osteostraci, ostracodermi, pellucidity, pellucidly, penetrate, penetration, pentanoic acid, perspicuously, phosphorous acid, picture, pilot, press home, propanol, propyl alcohol, purposelessly, puzzling, ravenala, ravenala madagascariensis, re-afforest, resolution, resolving, reveal, rock candy, rock crystal, roving, saliva, shadow, sharp, sharpness, shine, show, shun, sink in, sky-blue, softened, spinal fluid, spit, spittle, stand back, static line, stay away from, strike hard, striped dogwood, striped maple, suborder cephalaspida, suborder heterostraci, suborder osteostraci, teardrop, tetraethyl lead, thudding, thumping, ting, tinkle, trachinotus carolinus, transparence, transparency, transparentness, transparent quartz, transvaal kafferboom, traveler's tree, traveller's tree, unclearness, uncloudedness, unexplained, urea-formaldehyde resin, vagabondage, valeric acid, viola pubescens, visibility, vitreous humor, wandering, water blister, watercress, weed, whitish, yellow globe lily

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