Purgatorial
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Of, pertaining to, or resembling purgatory That purifies by removing sin; expiatory
Clearing
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To remove obstructions, impediments or other unwanted items from.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act or process of making or becoming clear.An area of land within a wood or forest devoid of trees.An open space in the fog etc.A process of exchanging transaction information and authorisation through a central institution or system to complete and settle those transactions.A sequence of events used to disconnect a call, and return to the ready state.The period in which remaining university places are allocated to remaining students.The act of removing the ball from one's own goal area by kicking it.
Example sentence: After clearing 9 metres of the descending passage, in about the middle of the afternoon, we came upon a second sealed doorway, which was almost the exact replica of the first.