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clearingnoun a setting free from a charge of wrongdoingthe clearing of his good name became his obsession acquittal, exculpation, exoneration, vindication absolution, condonation, forgiveness, pardon, remissionatonement, expiationcompurgationwhitewash conviction accusation, arraignment, impeachment, incrimination, indictmentprosecutioncastigation, censure, condemnation, denunciation a small area of usually open landdeer browsing in a clearing in the woods field, ground, lot, parcel, plat, plot, tract common(s), croft(chiefly British)grass, green, greensward, lawnglade, grassland, heath, heathland, lea(or ley), meadow, moor, pasture, pastureland clearingverbpresent participle of clearto rid the surface of (as an area) from things in the waythe early settlers worked hard to clear the land for crops freeing, opening, unblocking easing, facilitating, loosening (up), smoothing, unchoking, unclogging, unplugging, unstoppingunclutteringstripping blocking clogging, closing, damming, obstructing, plugging, stoppingcluttering (up) to set (a person or thing) free of something that encumberscleared the woods of brush disburdening, disencumbering, divesting, freeing, relieving, ridding, unburdening discharging, emancipating, enfranchising, liberating, loosening, loosing, manumitting, releasing, springing, unbinding, uncaging, unchaining, unfetteringbailing (out), delivering, redeeming, rescuingdisengaging, disentangling, extricating burdening, encumbering, saddling bogging (down), fettering, hampering, restraining, shackling, subjecting, weighing down, weighting (down) to give what is owed forfinally cleared the last debt anteing (up), balancing, discharging, footing, liquidating, meeting, paying, paying off, paying up, ponying up, quitting, recompensing, settling, springing (for), standing repudiating to remove the contents ofcleared a drawer so there would be a place to store his clothes emptying, evacuating, vacating, voiding depleting, draining, eliminating, exhausting, wastingbleeding, drawing (off)cleaning, flushing, purging, scouring, sweeping filling, loading to remove usually visible impurities fromcleared the car windows clarifying, distilling, filtering, fining, garbling, purifying processing, rectifying, refiningcleaning, cleansing, decontaminating, elutriating, purging, washingextracting, leachingbolting, screening, sieving, siftingdisinfecting, sanitizing clouding, dulling, muddyingcontaminating, dirtying, soilingdefiling, polluting, taintingbegriming, besmirching, fouling, sullying to set free from entanglement or difficultycleared himself of any involvement in the matter disembarrassing, disengaging, disentangling, extricating, freeing, liberating, releasing, untangling delivering, redeeming, rescuing, savingdisburdening, disencumbering, unburdeningunraveling, unsnarling, untwining, untying(or untieing) cutting loose embroiling, entangling blocking, hampering, hindering, impeding, obstructingburdening, encumbering, loading, weighing to make passage through (something) possible by removing obstructionsplows promptly cleared the roads of snow freeing, opening, unclogging, unplugging, unstopping easing, facilitating, loosening (up), smoothing blocking, clogging (up), closing, damming (up), plugging (up), stopping constricting, encumbering, hampering, hindering, impeding, interfering (with), obstructing, trammeling(or trammelling)barricading, blockading to free from a charge of wrongdoingshe had once been accused of embezzlement, but an investigation by the bank cleared her absolving, acquitting, exculpating, exonerating, vindicating atoning (for), expiatingdischarging, liberating, redeeming, releasing, unburdeningcondoning, excusing, whitewashingforgiving, pardoning, remittingavenging, redressing, revenging criminating, incriminating accusing, arraigning, charging, impeaching, indictingconvicting to give official acceptance of as satisfactorythe administration cleared the plan, and building should begin shortly accrediting, approbating, approving, authorizing, confirming, finalizing, formalizing, homologating, OK'ing(or okaying), ratifying, sanctioning, warranting accepting, acknowledging, affirmingcertifying, endorsing(also indorsing), validatingblessing, canonizing, sanctifyinginitialing(or initialling), rubber-stamping, signing, signing off (on)allowing, enabling, legalizing, licensing(also licencing), passing, permittingreapproving declining, denying, disallowing, disapproving, negativing, rejecting, turning down, vetoing banning, enjoining, forbidding, illegalizing, interdicting, prohibiting, proscribingdisregarding, ignoring, neglecting, overlookingrebuffing, rebutting, refusing, spurning to take away from a place or positioncleared the dishes from the table drawing, removing, taking out, withdrawing demounting, dislodgingabstracting, cutting, drawing off, drawing out, extracting, pullingbudging, dislocating, displacing, disturbing, moving, shifting, transferring, transposing placing, positioning, putting mountinganchoring, clamping, fixing, hitching, mooring, securing, settingembedding(also imbedding), entrenching(also intrenching), implanting, ingraining(also engraining), lodging, rootingsetting up, siting, situating, sticking to give information toplease clear my mind about the new arrangement regarding reimbursement for traveling expenses acquainting, advising, apprising, briefing, catching up, clueing (in)(or cluing (in)), enlightening, familiarizing, filling in, hipping, informing, instructing, telling, versing, wising (up) advertising, alerting, notifyingannouncing (to), disclosing (to)assuring, certifying, convincing, reassuring, warrantingeducating, lecturing, schooling, teaching, tutoringdisabusing, disenchanting, disillusioning, undeceiving keeping (someone) posted, letting someone know misinforming, misleading to receive after charges and deductions have been madecleared enough from that stock transaction to be able to afford a new luxury automobile netting earning, gaining, garnering, getting, making, realizingcashing in (on), raking (in)cleaning up grossing in the 14th century |