To make (a way) easy or plain; to free from obstruction, difficulty, or impediment. Chiefly in figurative contexts.

transitive. To free from a clog; to unclog. Also: to remove (something that clogs). Also figurative.

transitive. To remove a blockage or obstruction from; to unblock. Also: to free from a burden or encumbrance; to clear (now rare).

transitive. To disengage; to set free, release.

transitive. To free from embarrassment, encumbrance, complication, or intricacy; to rid; to relieve: cf. embarrass, v.

transitive. To disembarrass; to disencumber from anything that embarrasses.

transitive. To rid of trammels; to untrammel.

transitive. To free from its trammels, or from an entrammelled state.

To clear (the air or atmosphere); to free from mists and vapours. Also figurative and transferred.