CLEAR OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clear out mean? 

• CLEAR OUT (verb)
  The verb CLEAR OUT has 3 senses:

1. move out and leave nothing behind

2. clear out the chest and lungs

3. empty completely

  Familiarity information: CLEAR OUT used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLEAR OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move out and leave nothing behind

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

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

move out (move out of one's old house or office)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Clear out the chest and lungs

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

clear out; drive out; expectorate

Context example:

This drug expectorates quickly

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

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

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Empty completely

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

clean out; clear out

Context example:

We cleaned out all the drawers

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

empty (make void or empty of contents)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "clear out"):

clinker (clear out the cinders and clinker from)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

We were clear out of the ship, but not yet ashore in our stockade.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He looked very sad at this, so I said that he must clear out some of them, at all events.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Even as we looked a high whickering cry, the call of some weird animal, rang clear out of the darkness.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These people always clear out when they hear of trouble, for they do not wish to be pestered by the police.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I'd clear out the whole infernal gang of them and leave this country a bit cleaner than we found it.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)