1. Rid of objects or obstructions such as e.g. trees and brush
   "a cleared passage through the underbrush"; "played poker on the cleared dining room table"; "cleared land"; "cleared streets free of fallen trees and debris"
    
2. Freed from any question of guilt
   "is cleared from all blame";
   - absolved, clear, exculpated, exonerated, vindicated

1. Rid of obstructions
   "Clear your desk";
   - unclutter
    
2. Make a way or path by removing objects
   "Clear a path through the dense forest"
    
3. Remove so as to leave tidy or unobstructed
   "Clear snow from the road"; "clear the leaves from the lawn"
    
4. Make clear or more understandable; remove confusion or ambiguity
   "Clear up the question of who is at fault";
   - clear up, shed light on, crystallize, crystallise [Brit], crystalize [US, rare], straighten out, sort out, enlighten, illuminate, elucidate
    
5. Make clear, bright, light, or translucent
   "The water had to be cleared through filtering"
    
6. Become free from clouds or less cloudy; become brighter
   "The sky cleared after the storm";
   - clear up, light up, brighten
    
7. Go unchallenged; be approved
   "The bill cleared the House";
   - pass
    
8. Pass an inspection or receive authorization
   "clear customs"
    
9. Free from blame or guilt; clear from accusation or official charges
   "The suspect was cleared of the murder charges";
   - acquit, assoil [archaic], exonerate, exculpate [formal]
    
10. Clear from impurities, blemishes, pollution, etc.
    "clear the water before it can be drunk"
     
11. Be debited and credited to the proper bank accounts
    "The payment should clear within 2 business days"
     
12. Yield as a net profit
    "This sale cleared me $1 million";
    - net
     
13. Make as a net profit
    "The company cleared $1 million";
    - net, sack [N. Amer, informal], sack up [N. Amer, informal]
     
14. Receive money in return for work; make a profit as the result of some business transaction
    "He clears $5,000 each month";
    - gain, take in, make, earn, realize, realise [Brit], pull in [informal], bring in
     
15. Sell to get rid of
    "We cleared a lot of the old model cars"
     
16. Settle, as of a debt
    "clear a debt";
    - solve
     
17. Go away or disappear
    "The fog cleared in the afternoon"
     
18. Pass by, over, or under without making contact
    "the balloon cleared the tree tops";
    - top
     
19. (computing) rid of instructions or data
    "clear a memory buffer"
     
20. Remove (people) from a building
    "clear the patrons from the theatre after the bomb threat"
     
21. Remove the occupants of
    "Clear the building"
     
22. Free (the throat) by making a rasping sound
    "Clear the throat"
     
23. Grant authorization or clearance for
    "Clear the manuscript for publication";
    - authorize, authorise [Brit], pass
     
24. Free from payment of customs duties, as of a shipment
    "Clear the ship and let it dock"

See also: clean-handed, clear-cut, guiltless, improved, innocent, sack, treeless, unwooded

Type of: acquire, act, allow, alter, bear, benefit, bring home the bacon [informal], change, clarify, clear up, come through, come up trumps [Brit, informal], countenance, create, deliver the goods, determine, disappear, discharge, disembarrass, elucidate, empty, flog [Brit, informal], free, gain, get, go away, judge, label, let, make, modify, move, move out, overhaul, overtake, pass, pay, permit, profit, pronounce, remove, rid, sell, settle, square off, square up, succeed, take, take away, take out, turn up trumps [Brit, informal], vanish, vary, win, withdraw, yield

Antonym: bounce, clutter, uncleared

Encyclopedia: Cleared