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cleared

cleared

1.8
Made free of trees, plants, or other things so it is open
  • adjective
  • /klɪrd/
translation icon : despejado
  • Grasshoppers thrived in cleared areas, while specialist forest beetles declined.

These updates coming in as well as airspace mostly cleared out on trackable airspace.

Examples

  • The whole of Dartmoor was forested at some point, but all cleared, all cleared.

  • It makes things much easier for the whole, the air is cleared in that way.

  • It's like you don't have to pull out every single stick from the cleared out river.

  • The park was finally opened after years of cleanup, and now it is completely cleared of debris.

  • The construction crew cleared the site of all obstacles to make way for the new building.

  • After the storm, volunteers worked hard to ensure that the cleared path was safe for hikers.

Antonyms

25 3.0

Full of too many things so it looks messy

1 5.3

Still covered by things like trees, snow and rubbish

Blocked so movement, view, or access is difficult

How Clear

empty
1.0
bare
217 2.2
cleared
1.8
tidy
47 1.0
cluttered
25 3.0

Surface Forms

cleared positive

Morphology

cleared = clear (transparent) = clear + ed

Formed by the past-participle/adjectival suffix '-ed' on the verb 'clear', so the meaning is directly derived from 'clear'.

Etymology

Cleared comes from the word clear, which also means 'free from things in the way', like clearing a path or a table. So a cleared field or path is one that people have made empty of trees, debris, or other obstacles.