CLEARED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cleared mean? 

• CLEARED (adjective)
  The adjective CLEARED has 2 senses:

1. rid of objects or obstructions such as e.g. trees and brush

2. freed from any question of guilt

  Familiarity information: CLEARED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLEARED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rid of objects or obstructions such as e.g. trees and brush

Context example:

played poker on the cleared dining room table

Similar:

clear-cut (having had all the trees removed at one time)

improved ((of land) made ready for development or agriculture by clearing of trees and brush)

Also:

treeless; unwooded (not wooded)

Antonym:

uncleared (not cleared; not rid of objects or obstructions)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Freed from any question of guilt

Synonyms:

absolved; clear; cleared; exculpated; exonerated; vindicated

Context example:

his official honor is vindicated

Similar:

clean-handed; guiltless; innocent (free from evil or guilt)

 Context examples 

This study suggests that some of the hurdles that stand in the way of exploiting the therapeutic potential of miRNAs could be cleared by instead targeting the gut microbiome.

(New Light on Link between Gut Bacteria, Anxiety, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Survival rates for older infants who never had infection or whose infections cleared before transplant also were high — 90 percent and 82 percent, respectively.

(Early treatment benefits infants with severe combined immunodeficiency, NIH)

Neuromelanin accumulates over the lifespan and is only cleared away from cells following cell death, as occurs in neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson’s disease.

(Neuromelanin-sensitive MRI identified as a potential biomarker for psychosis, National Institutes of Health)

But he had a strange custom; every day after dinner, when the table was cleared, and no one else was present, a trusty servant had to bring him one more dish.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

My very next question might have cleared the matter up, but at that instant the door opened and a woman stepped into the room.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He saw, cleared eyed, that he was in the Valley of the Shadow.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

All 10 of the animals treated with the gel containing P407-PBP cleared the infection after 24 hours.

(Developing novel ear infection treatments, NIH)

Lymphatic filariasis is a mosquito-borne disease that often leaves its victims with disabling hydrocele (accumulation of fluid in the scrotum), lymphedema or elephantiasis after the infection has cleared.

(New portable device to gauge severity of elephantiasis, SciDev.Net)

At low plasma concentration this agent is filtered by the glomeruli and almost completely cleared from the renal blood stream by active tubular secretion in a single transit through the kidney.

(Aminohippurate Sodium, NCI Thesaurus)

The rate at which an exogenous substance is removed or cleared from the whole or part of the body.

(Biological Clearance Rate, NCI Thesaurus)