1. (

• clear-cut

) remove all the trees at one time; "clear-cut an acre of forest" ;

1. (

• clear-cut ,
• distinct ,
• trenchant

) 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" ;

2. (

• clear-cut

) having had all the trees removed at one time; "clear-cut hillsides are subject to erosion" ;

3. (

• clear ,
• clean-cut ,
• clear-cut

) 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" ;