clear the neighborhood (English, verb)
expansion: clear the neighborhood (third-person singular simple present clears the neighborhood, present participle clearing the neighborhood, simple past and past participle cleared the neighborhood)
Senses:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 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.
raw_tags: of a celestial body
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see clear, the, neighborhood.
Forms:
form: clears the neighborhood
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: clearing the neighborhood
tags: participle
present
form: cleared the neighborhood
tags: participle
past
form: cleared the neighborhood
tags: past
form: clear the neighbourhood
tags: alternative