Definition of "clear away" verb third-person singular simple present clears away , present participle clearing away , simple past and past participle cleared away
(transitive, figuratively) To dispose of , to get rid of , to remove . quotations examples
Quotations A state ideology , mixing nationalism , and basic Marxist economics , going under the name "Juche ", was constructed , and Kim Il -sung effectively silenced , disposed of and cleared away any opposition , isolating the country and exercising an iron grip on the military , the state media and the government and party organs .
2011 December 19, Kerry Brown, “Kim Jong-il obituary”, in The Guardian
(nautical, transitive) To prepare some object for use by removing obstacles , untying or unfastening it. quotations examples
Quotations The schooner was run into the wind , and while the hands were clearing away the stern boat , Queequeg , stripped to the waist , darted from the side with a long living arc of a leap .
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 13”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley