to clear out
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3.1
- phrasal verb
- /klɪr aʊt/
:
vaciar
- Go ahead and clear out all of your storage.
And God saying, clear them out, take it back.
- And God saying, clear them out, take it back.
- That's because it's during sleep that the brain clears out waste products and builds memory.
- Having my closet cleared out now is game changing.
- When you use code Theo Manscaped, clear out the leaves.
- And, and we're like everyone kind of cleared out for us.
Examples
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Well, we need to clear out the house.
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Let's clear out these chairs.
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Go through, have a clear out and sell it online.
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But we have to clear out his place before the cops do.
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We are ready to clear out.
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In the end, my son went and cleared out the apartment.
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OK, guys, the first thing I'm going to do is clear out some of the stuff in the room.
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We got the room almost cleared out, and now we're about to paint.
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When the bell rang, the rest of the class cleared out in a hurry.
Fiction book (1995) -
Before moving to a new city, we need to clear out the apartment so it is ready for the new tenants.
Synonyms
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1.5
To move something or someone away from a place
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1.5
To remove people or things from a place
333
2.7
To finish dealing with things and put them in order
260
1.0
To empty something completely
179
1.0
To remove everything from a container or place
125
2.6
Take things or people out of a vehicle like a truck
91
3.2
Empty a place or container by removing everything inside
52
4.5
Leave a place or job so it is free for someone else
49
6.3
To remove unwanted substances, things, or people by cleaning
10
1.8
To take things away from a place to make it tidy
8
3.0
Remove things from a surface to make it empty or clean
5
5.0
To take out what is inside a container so it becomes empty
3
4.0
To remove unwanted people or things to make a group work better
2
5.8
To make a place empty by removing all people or things
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2.2
To remove dirt or leaves from a place using a broom
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3.9
To destroy or carry something away completely, for example by water
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8.1
To take something out of where it is kept
Remove all fuel or other liquid from a tank until it is empty
Antonyms
How Empty
Surface Forms
Morphology
The verb 'clear' (to remove) plus the particle 'out' (away from the interior) composes directly to mean removing something from inside to outside, so applied to chest/lungs it transparently denotes expelling mucus. This motion/evacuation sense is cross-linguistically common and follows a regular phrasal-verb composition that a B1 learner who knows the constituents can infer.
Etymology
Clear out comes from the image of taking everything out of a room until it is clear and 'empty'. So, to clear out a place means to remove all items or to leave and take your things, making it 'empty'.