Clear Out

Definition: Clear Out

Clear Out

Verb

1. Move out and leave nothing behind.

2. Empty completely; "We cleaned out all the drawers".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Clear Out

Cleanness

Rout out, clear out, sweep out; make a clean sweep of.

Ejection

Empty; drain to the dregs; sweep off; clear off, clear out, clear away; suck, draw off; clean out, make a clean sweep of, clear decks, purge.

Crosswords: Clear Out

Well end your suffering little man. Why don't you pack up your gear and clear out of here? (West Side Story; writing credit: Jerome Robbins; Arthur Laurents)

You ride on up there, clear out the Iindians, build a little cabin, get a nice fire goin' in the fireplace and me and Jake will gather a herd and then we'll come on up. (Lonesome Dove; writing credit: Larry McMurtry; William D. Wittliff)

You better clear out before my bones grow back, I'm might strangle you. (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; writing credit: Steven Kloves)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• For Packrats Only: How to Clean Up, Clear Out, and Live Clutter-Free Forever! (reference)

• Not for Packrats Only: How to Clean Up, Clear Out, and Live Clutter-Free Forever (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Humpback whales can leap clear out of the water. Megaptera novaeangliae. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Troops in Australia. Under cover of tall grass, Australian troops crouch behind an American light tank in fighting at Buna. This picture, taken during actual warfare, shows infantrymen following up the tank as it advances to clear out Japanese pillboxes o. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expression using "clear out": To clear out. Additional references.

Albanian

zbraz (clear, deplenish, deplete, discharge, drain, draw, dump, effuse, empty, empty out, evacuate, exhaust, flux, Lade, make a hole in, outpour, overrun, pour out, purge, shoot, tap, unload, unlock, void), heq (abate, abolish, avert, bereave, blow, call off, cast, clear away, cross, cut off, cut out, deduct, delete, derogate, detach, detrude, dislodge, dismiss, dismount, divest, do away with, doff, drag, draw, drop, eject, eliminate, erase, exhaust, expel, exscind, extract, gather in, generate, get off, jump, keep off, kill, lift, lift off, move off, off with, omit, oust, peel back, pick off, pull at, pull off, pull out, put aside, put off, relegate, remove, save, scour, scratch, scratch off, scratch out, shake out, shed, skim, skip, soothe, spay, strike off, strip, subtract, swing, take away, take off, take out, tear away, throw out, turn away, undergo, unhang, unhook, unpin, unstring), flak (cast, cast off, chuck, fling, heave, hurl, pitch, reject, scrap, throw, throw away). (various references)

Arabic 

‏إنصرف (clear off, depart, dismiss, get away, go away, go off, make tracks, part, pop off, run along, scram, sling one's hook, take off, vacate). (various references)

Bulgarian 

оставам без пукната пара, прогонвам (dispel, drive away, exorcise, exorcize, run off, see off, shag, shoo, shut away), изчезвам (abscond, disappear, dissipate, evanesce, evanish, fall away, go, melt away, mosey, pass, pass away, pass off, shrink away, sweep away, tail, vanish, waste, wear out, whirl away, work off), изчиствам (clean out, cleanse, get off, take out), изпразвам (deflate, deplenish, deplete, discharge, dismantle, empty, eviscerate, exhaust, unload). (various references)

Czech

vyplout (come out, sail, set sail), vyklidit (clean out, dismantle, empty, move out, vacate), odbavit (check in). (various references)

Finnish

raivata tieltä (clear out of the way, do away with). (various references)

French

faire partir, disparaître, évacuer (to clear). (various references)

German

sich absetzen (be deposited, break away, collect, contrast, defect, hive off, pull ahead, stand out, take off), ausräumen (clean out, clear up, dispel, empty out, move out, purge, rake, settle, smooth out), abhauen (bugger off, bunk, chop off, hew off, piss off, push off, scarper, scoot, scram, skip off, slash, to scoot, to scram, vamoose). (various references)

Greek 

καθαρίζω (absterge, clarify, clean, cleanse, clear, clear up, defecate, finish up, flux, furbish, net, peel, purge, purify, rarefy, scavenge, scour, wash away). (various references)

Hungarian

kitakarít (clean, clean out, tidy up, to clean, to clean up, to clear up, to defecate, to do out, to make up, to tidy, to tidy up), elkerget (chase, drive away, spurn, stave off, to bundle off, to bundle out, to chastise, to expel, to put away, to send off, to spurn). (various references)

Indonesian

melengangkan (vacate). (various references)

Italian

sloggiare (dislodge, rout out, shove off), mettere in ordine (compose, make, order, put in order, regulate, set to rights). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

立ち退く (to clear out, to evacuate, to take refuge, to vacate, to withdraw). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たちのく (to clear out, to evacuate, to take refuge, to vacate, to withdraw). (various references)

Manx

goll roish (antecede, betake, buzz off, go ahead, go before, go off, make away, move on, nip off, pass on, pop off, precede, walk away), folmaghey (blow out, deflate, deflation, deplenish, depletion, discharge, drain, drink up, empty, evacuation, hollow, unburden, vacate, void). (various references)

Pig Latin

earclay outay

Portuguese

saquear (depredate, devastate, foray, harry, loot, maraud, pill, pillage, plunder, prey upon, ravage, raven, reave, reive, rifle, sack), desocupar (empty, vacant, vacate). (various references)

Romanian

elibera (clear, deliver, discharge, disengage, emancipate, enfranchise, exonerate, free, give, issue, liberate, make out, manumit, privilege, ransom, release, remand, remit, rescue, rid, unbind, unchain, unfetter, unhand, unshackle, vacate). (various references)

Russian 

убирать (clear, clear away, furl, put away, remove, take away, tidy up), опорожнять (clean out, clear, deplenish, empty, evacuate, void). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

rasprodati (sell out), isprazniti (become empty, empty, empty out, evacuate, unload, vacate, void). (various references)

Spanish

vaciar (blow, blow out, bottle, deplete, draw off, embowel, empty, hold back, hollow, pour away, pour off, run off, tap out, turn out, unpack, vacate, void), quitar (abstract, blow off, brush away, brush off, clear away, come off, encroach on, excise, get away, get off, get out, give, iron out, kill, knock off, knock out, lay, leak away, leak out, leave, lend, let away, litter, Parry, pick off, pinch, pull off, push off, relieve, remove, take away, take down, take from, take off, take out, take up, tear down, throw aside, throw away, throw over, throw up, tidy away, trim away, trim off, trot along, trot over, trot round, turn off, twist off, wash away, wash off, weaken, weed, withdraw), marcharse (come away, come off, depart, drive away, drive off, get off, go, go along, go away, go down, go off, leak away, leak out, leave, quit, take away, tear down, throw down, throw over, toddle, troop, trot, trot along, trot away, trot off), limpiar (black, char, clean, clean down, clean out, clean up, cleanse, clear, debug, delete, do, dredge, dust, efface, Frank, knock off, live down, make clean, manicure, mop, mop up, police, polish, purge, rub up, scavenge, scour, scrape, shine, swab, swob, tidy, tidy out, tidy up, turn out, wash, wipe, wipe down, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up), escabullirse (scurry away, scurry off, slink, slip away, slip off, sneak away, sneak off, snuck, steal away, wriggle out of), desescombrar (clear, dig out). (various references)

Swedish

tömma (clear, deplenish, deplete, drain, drink, empty, eviscerate, pour, vacate), sticka (clear off, dig, hook it, jab, knit, knitting needle, knitting-needle, Lam, light out, match, pick, prick, prickle, prod, scoot, scram, spill, splinter, split, stab, stick, sting, take french leave, thrust, tingle, twinge, vamoose, welsh). (various references)

Turkish

tahliye etmek (clear, close out, discharge, empty, evacuate, free, quit, set free, strip, vacate, void), satıp bitirmek, ortadan kaybolmak (be lost, clear off, cut, disappear, dissolve into thin air, hive off, make oneself scarce, recede), defolmak (be off, beat it, clear off, go away, push off, vamoose, vamose), boşaltmak (bleed, clean, clean out, clear, close out, debus, deplenish, deplete, discharge, disgorge, dismantle, drain, drain away, drain off, draw off, drop off, dump, ejaculate, empty, evacuate, excrete, exhaust, let off, pour, pour from, pour out of, quit, strip, teem, tip, tip out, tip over, turn out, unlade, unload, unpack, vacate, void), çekip gitmek (buzz off, clear off, pop off, push off, scram, split, vamoose, vamose, walk off), çek git (get out, push off, scram). (various references)

Ukrainian

відчистити від бруду. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cloture, clouter, coulter, locater, outrace, torulae.

-2 letters: acuter, cartel, claret, coaler, coater, colter, colure, coteau, couter, curate, curtal, cutler, lector, locate, ocular, oracle, recoal, rectal, reluct, torula, turaco.

-3 letters: actor, acute, alert, alter, artel, caret, carle, carol, carte, cater, ceorl, claro, clear, cleat, clour, clout, coral, court, crate, cruel, cruet, culet, curet, cuter.

+1 letter: nucleator, peculator, urceolate.

+2 letters: cataloguer, edulcorate, ejaculator, elucidator, nucleators, operculate, orbiculate, outcrawled, peculators, speculator, ulceration.

+3 letters: cataloguers, conjectural, construable, counterplan, counterplay, counterplea, countervail, crenulation, edulcorated, edulcorates, ejaculators, ejaculatory, elucidators, emasculator, exculpatory, executorial, granulocyte, involucrate, lactiferous, operculated, radiolucent, reductional, reinoculate, reluctation, speculators, ulcerations.

+4 letters: aeronautical, agranulocyte, congratulate, counterblast, counterclaim, counterplans, counterplays, counterpleas, counterrally, countervails, crenulations, edulcorating, elocutionary, elucubration, emasculators, gesticulator, granulocytes, inoperculate, jocularities, neurotically, nomenclature, photonuclear, plutocracies, proconsulate, prosecutable, reinoculated, reinoculates, reluctations, reticulation, uncorrelated, unrhetorical.