clear away

Verb

Meaning

remove from sight

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

deforest clear destroy rid punt eradicate cleanse dispel unclog get rid of aspirate disencumber take out clean out cart off
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Antonyms

install build in

Hypernyms

take remove withdraw take away

Examples

This book endeavors to clear away the mists which prevent so many from seeing the road. Norman Angell

The experiences of promoting my first album were really something; there is so much illusion in my environment (touring and pop music) that I wanted to clear away. Duncan Sheik

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass. Robert Collier

We're not trying to prove the character of God through science. That's a bad idea. What I'm trying to do is clear away the misunderstandings, the debris that prevent people from accepting that God who wants to accept them. Phillip E. Johnson

We live in a nightmare of falsehoods, and there are few who are sufficiently awake and aware to see things as they are. Our first duty is to clear away illusions and recover a sense of reality. Nikolai Berdyaev

I have to clear away a few popular misconceptions about space as a habitat ... It is generally considered that planets are important. Except for Earth, they are not. Freeman Dyson

Close letter words and terms

clear as print clear as the sun at noonday clear association clear benchmarks clear beryl clear blue sky