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Synonyms and Antonyms of clearing out
- police used tear gas to clear out the demonstrators
- everyone cleared out as soon as the fire alarm began sounding
avoiding, eluding, evading, losing, shunning
decamping, departing, eloping, exiting, going, leaving, moving, pulling out, quitting, sallying (forth), shoving (off), taking off, walking out
bringing off, emancipating, enfranchising, freeing, liberating, loosening, loosing, manumitting, redeeming, releasing, rescuing, springing, unbinding, uncaging, unchaining, unfettering
- the lunch crowd usually clears out by 2:00 p.m. at the latest
bailing, bailing out, booking [slang], buggering off [British slang], bugging off, bugging out, buzzing (off), clearing off [chiefly British], cutting out, departing, digging out, exiting, getting, getting off, going, going off, moving, packing (up or off), parting, peeling off, piking (out or off), pulling out, pushing off, pushing on, quitting, running along, sallying (forth), scarpering [British], shoving (off), stepping (along), taking off, vamoosing, walking out
setting out, starting, striking out
absconding, decamping, escaping, evacuating, fleeing, flying, getting out, mizzling [chiefly British], running away, scatting, scramming, skipping
going out, lighting out, stepping out
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