English Dictionary

clear away

動詞

他動詞 自動詞 比喩的用法

(transitive) To tidy up, to remove mess or obstacles from a place to make it neat. / (intransitive) To leave, disappear / (transitive, figuratively) To dispose of, to get rid of, to remove.

日本語の意味

（他動詞）片付ける：散らかった状態や障害物を取り除いて、整った状態にする。 / （他動詞）整理する：物事を秩序立てる・整頓する。 / （他動詞、比喩的に）処分する：不要なものを取り除いたり、除去したりする。 / （自動詞）消える：姿を現さなくなる、跡形もなくなる。

Before the guests arrive, please clear away the toys from the living room floor.

客が来る前に、リビングの床からおもちゃを片付けてください。

意味（1）

(transitive) To tidy up, to remove mess or obstacles from a place to make it neat.

Further along the gallery was the huge skeleton barrel of a brontosaurus. My museum hypothesis was confirmed. Going toward the side of the gallery I found what appeared to be sloping shelves, and clearing away the thick dust, I found the old familiar glass cases of our own time. But these must have been air-tight to judge from the fair preservation of some of their contents.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To leave, disappear

The showers should clear away tomorrow.

意味（3）

(transitive, figuratively) To dispose of, to get rid of, to remove.

A state ideology, mixing nationalism, and basic Marxist economics, going under the name Juche, was constructed, and Kim Il-sung effectively silenced, disposed of and cleared away any opposition, isolating the country and exercising an iron grip on the military, the state media and the government and party organs.

意味（4）

(nautical, transitive) To prepare some object for use by removing obstacles, untying or unfastening it.

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.

clears away （ present singular third-person ）

clearing away （ participle present ）

cleared away （ participle past ）

cleared away （ past ）