verb
- Remove all the trees at one time.
- usage: "clear-cut an acre of forest"
adjective
- Clearly or sharply defined to the mind.
- usage: "clear-cut evidence of tampering"; "Claudius was the first to invade Britain with distinct... Intentions of conquest"; "trenchant distinctions between right and wrong"
- Having had all the trees removed at one time.
- usage: "clear-cut hillsides are subject to erosion"
- Clear and distinct to the senses; easily perceptible.
- usage: "as clear as a whistle"; "clear footprints in the snow"; "the letter brought back a clear image of his grandfather"; "a spire clean-cut against the sky"; "a clear-cut pattern"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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