- To render bright, transparent, or undimmed; to free from clouds.He sweeps the skies and clears the cloudy north.
- To free from impurities; to clarify; to cleanse.
- 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.
- To render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to make perspicacious.Our common prints would clear up their understandings.
- 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 ofoffaway, or out.Clear your mind of cant.A statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter.
- 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.How! wouldst thou clear rebellion?
- To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure; as, to clear a hedge; to clear a reef.
- To gain without deduction; to net.The profit which she cleared on the cargo.
