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Another word for clearing

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clearing

n.

The act of clearing
freeing, riddance, clearance, removal, removing, elimination, eradication, deforestation, defoliation, opening up, freeing from obstruction, unblocking, unclogging, evacuation, disposal, voidance, dispersal, sweeping out, clearing away, mopping up, emptying; see also acquittal, removal 1.
A cleared space
open space, glade, opening, clearance, defoliated area, field, tract, cultivated land, cleared land; see also area 2, expanse, yard 1.

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We were clearing dishes, before he spoke.
There's a spring in that clearing ahead.
They were clearing the hut for the colonel and carried them out.
After a long time they came into a clearing on the edge of the mountain.
Here is a hogshead of molasses or of brandy directed to John Smith, Cuttingsville, Vermont, some trader among the Green Mountains, who imports for the farmers near his clearing, and now perchance stands over his bulkhead and thinks of the last arrivals on the coast, how they may affect the price for him, telling his customers this moment, as he has told them twenty times before this morning, that he expects some by the next train of prime quality.

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