CLEAR OFF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clear off mean? 

• CLEAR OFF (verb)
  The verb CLEAR OFF has 1 sense:

1. remove from sight

  Familiarity information: CLEAR OFF used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLEAR OFF (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove from sight

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

clear away; clear off

Hypernyms (to "clear off" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

 Context examples 

I knew he would be likely to clear off then and give us a chance of getting at Miss Burnet.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My own work, with its manifold arrears, took me all day to clear off; it was dark when I was able to inquire about my zoöphagous patient.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I almost expected a rebuff for this hardly well-timed question, but, on the contrary, waking out of his scowling abstraction, he turned his eyes towards me, and the shade seemed to clear off his brow.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)