clear away


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clear away

vb
(adverb) to remove (objects) from (the table) after a meal
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Verb1.clear away - remove from sight
remove, take away, withdraw, take - remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment"
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One was washed clear away, and the bed-rock exposed; the other was buried out of sight under a tumbled chaos of rocks, gravel, mud, and rubbish.
The recent flooding rains had washed the road clear away in places, but we never stopped, we never slowed down for anything.
"That's not your duty; send the waiter to clear away, and get my dress coat out."
She considered it as an act of indispensable duty to clear away the claims of creditors with all the expedition which the most comprehensive retrenchments could secure, and saw no dignity in anything short of it.
The pains are clear away down to my ankles now, or I'd 'a' walked in to Starkfield on my own feet, sooner'n put you out, and asked Michael Eady to let me ride over on his wagon to the Flats, when he sends to meet the train that brings his groceries.
Clear away. There was nothing they wouldn't have cleared away, or couldn't have cleared away, with old Fezziwig looking on.
Then I slid out quiet and throwed the snakes clear away amongst the bushes; for I warn't going to let Jim find out it was all my fault, not if I could help it.
To clear away any possible doubt, he showed the ruby which the Good Queen had given him in his childhood.
This goes clear away ahead of anything I ever heard of before.
Critique: David Drake is a master of the science fiction action-adventure genre and with his latest novel in the Cinnabar nave series "To Clear Away the Shadows" is still another of his inherently riveting, page-turner epic that is certain to be an immediate and enduringly popular addition to community library Science Fiction collections.
The landowner revealed he has had to clear away beer cans, bottles, dirty nappies, disposable barbecues, tents, bags of rubbish, dog poo, and even human excrement.
A council statement said: "Both teams had to stop their proactive community work in order to clear away this mess.