CLEAR AWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clear away mean? 

• CLEAR AWAY (verb)
  The verb CLEAR AWAY has 1 sense:

1. remove from sight

  Familiarity information: CLEAR AWAY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLEAR AWAY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove from sight

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

clear away; clear off

Hypernyms (to "clear away" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

 Context examples 

But neither the official police nor Holmes’s own small but very efficient organisation sufficed to clear away the mystery.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Meg helped Jo clear away the remains of the feast, which took half the afternoon and left them so tired that they agreed to be contented with tea and toast for supper.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

They pieced together that C3 gets secreted by microglia, trash-collecting cells that in a healthy retina clear away dead cells by phagocytosis to keep the tissue working properly.

(Immune system can slow degenerative eye disease, National Institutes of Health)

At the first warning, Theresa began casually to clear away the dishes.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

What he could not clear away, however, was the effect of those years of morbid and unnatural life spent in the hidden chambers of the old house; and it was only the devotion of his wife and of his son which kept the thin and flickering flame of his life alight.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We've known that this process occurs when we sleep to clear away the neurological wear and tear of the day, but now it appears that the same thing happens when we start to lose sleep.

(Lack of Sleep Makes Brain to Literally Eat Itself, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

She considered it as an act of indispensable duty to clear away the claims of creditors with all the expedition which the most comprehensive retrenchments could secure, and saw no dignity in anything short of it.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)