clear away
Verb

clear away

  1. (transitive) To tidy up, to remove mess or obstacles from a place to make it neat.
  2. (intransitive) To leave, disappear
    The showers should clear away tomorrow.
  3. (transitive, figuratively) To dispose of, to get rid of, to remove.
  4. (nautical, transitive) To prepare some object for use by removing obstacles, untying or unfastening it.
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 13
      The schooner was run into the wind, and while the hands were clearing away the stern boat, Queequeg, stripped to the waist, darted from the side with a long living arc of a leap.
    • 1893, Conan Doyle, The Refugees, chapter 26
      "Hiram Jefferson and John Moreton to the pumps!" cried the captain. "Mr. Tomlinson, clear away the long-boat and let us see if we may set her right, though I fear that she is past mending."



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