English Explanatory Dictionary

clear the neighborhood

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To become gravitationally dominant, such that there are no other bodies of comparable size within its orbit, other than its natural satellites or those otherwise under its gravitational influence.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see clear, the, neighborhood.

Word forms

clear the neighborhood clears the neighborhood clearing the neighborhood cleared the neighborhood clear the neighbourhood

Related words

Pluto which in 2006 was ruled not to be a planet because it had not cleared its neighborhood
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