clear away

verb4

1. •
   To tidy up, to remove mess or obstacles from a place to make it neat.
2. •
   To leave, disappear.

   • The showers should clear away tomorrow.
3. •
   (figurative) To dispose of, to get rid of, to remove.
4. •
   To prepare some object for use by removing obstacles, untying or unfastening it.

   • The schooner was run into the wind, and while the hands were clearing away the stern boat, Queequeg, stripped to the waist, darted from the side with a long living arc of a leap. — 1851