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Definition of Clear away
1. Verb. Remove from sight.
Definition of Clear away
1. Verb. (transitive) To tidy up, to remove mess or obstacles from a place to make it neat. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) To leave, disappear ¹
3. Verb. (transitive figuratively) To dispose of, to get rid of, to remove. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clear Away
Literary usage of Clear away
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1829)
"... To his dies my hooks I throw in, And collar his dragons clear away ; And his
onions,M chain, and key. Then his ticker I set a going, With his onions, ..."
2. Goops and how to be Them: A Manual of Manners for Polite Infants Inculcating ...by Gelett Burgess by Gelett Burgess (1900)
"Not to lie about instead; Tell her she must clear away Everything she's used to-day.
All your playthings and your toys Must be trained like girls and boys! ..."
3. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1904)
"То interpose ; to part two who are fighting. Lane. (3) ». A hollow place in the
gravel where salmon deposit their roe. North. (4) v. To clear away. ..."
4. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1867)
"... ground in waiting for the smoke of common gunpowder to clear away ; it has
all the advantages of gun-cotton, without its danger and other disadvantages. ..."
5. Memoirs of Doctor Burney by Fanny Burney (1832)
"must pause, occasionally, to think as well as to read ; and to clear away sundry
mists of prejudice, or ignorance, ere he can keep pace with the sublime ..."
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