Cleared

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Clear \Clear\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cleared}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Clearing}.]
     1. To render bright, transparent, or undimmed; to free from
        clouds.
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              He sweeps the skies and clears the cloudy north.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     2. To free from impurities; to clarify; to cleanse.
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     3. To free from obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of
        perplexity; to make perspicuous.
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              Many knotty points there are
              Which all discuss, but few can clear. --Prior.
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     4. To render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to
        make perspicacious.
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              Our common prints would clear up their
              understandings.                       --Addison
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     5. 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 of, off, away, or out.
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              Clear your mind of cant.              --Dr. Johnson.
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              A statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art
              of the statuary only clears away the superfluous
              matter.                               --Addison.
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     6. To free from the imputation of guilt; to justify,
        vindicate, or acquit; -- often used with from before the
        thing imputed.
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              I . . . am sure he will clear me from partiality.
                                                    --Dryden.
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              How! wouldst thou clear rebellion?    --Addison.
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     7. To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure;
        as, to clear a hedge; to clear a reef.
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     8. To gain without deduction; to net.
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              The profit which she cleared on the cargo.
                                                    --Macaulay.
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     {To clear a ship at the customhouse}, to exhibit the
        documents required by law, give bonds, or perform other
        acts requisite, and procure a permission to sail, and such
        papers as the law requires.
  
     {To clear a ship for action}, or {To clear for action}
        (Naut.), to remove incumbrances from the decks, and
        prepare for an engagement.
  
     {To clear the land} (Naut.), to gain such a distance from
        shore as to have sea room, and be out of danger from the
        land.
  
     {To clear hawse} (Naut.), to disentangle the cables when
        twisted.
  
     {To clear up}, to explain; to dispel, as doubts, cares or
        fears.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cleared
       adj 1: rid of objects or obstructions such as e.g. trees and brush;
              "cleared land"; "cleared streets free of fallen trees
              and debris"; "a cleared passage through the
              underbrush"; "played poker on the cleared dining room
              table" [ant: {uncleared}]
       2: freed from any question of guilt; "is absolved from all
          blame"; "was now clear of the charge of cowardice"; "his
          official honor is vindicated" [syn: {absolved}, {clear}, {exculpated},
           {exonerated}, {vindicated}]