CLEAR-CUT

• (verb) remove all the trees at one time

  "clear-cut an acre of forest"

• (adj.) clearly or sharply defined to the mind

  "clear-cut evidence of tampering", "Claudius was the first to invade Britain with distinct...intentions of conquest", "trenchant distinctions between right and wrong"

  synonyms : distinct , trenchant

• (adj.) clear and distinct to the senses; easily perceptible

  "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"

  synonyms : clean-cut , clear

• (adj.) having had all the trees removed at one time

  "clear-cut hillsides are subject to erosion"

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