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Verb: clean kleen- Make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from
"Clean the stove!"; "The dentist cleaned my teeth" - make clean - Remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
"Clean the turkey" - pick - Clean and tidy up the house
- houseclean, clean house - Clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing
"clean up before you see your grandparents"; "clean your fingernails before dinner" - cleanse - Be cleanable
"This stove cleans easily" - Deprive wholly of money in a gambling game, robbery, etc.
"The other players cleaned him completely" - Remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely
"The boys cleaned the sandwich platters"; "The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm" - strip - Remove while making clean
"Clean the spots off the rug" - Remove unwanted substances from
- scavenge - Remove shells or husks from
"clean grain before milling it" Adjective: clean (cleaner,cleanest) kleen- Free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits
"children with clean shining faces"; "clean white shirts"; "clean dishes"; "a spotlessly clean house"; "cats are clean animals" - Free of restrictions or qualifications
"a clean bill of health" - clear - (of sound or colour) free from anything that dulls or dims
"efforts to obtain a clean bass in orchestral recordings" - clear, light, unclouded - Free from impurities
"clean water" - fresh - (of a record) having no marks of discredit or offence
"a clean voting record"; "a clean driver's licence" - Ritually clean or pure
- Not spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination
"a clean fuel"; "cleaner and more efficient engines"; "the tactical bomb is reasonably clean" - uncontaminating - (of behaviour or especially language) free from objectionable elements; fit for all observers
"good clean fun"; "a clean joke" - unobjectionable - Free from sepsis or infection
"a clean wound" - uninfected - Morally pure
"led a clean life" - clean-living - (of a manuscript) having few alterations or corrections
"a clean manuscript" - fair - (of a surface) not written or printed on
"a clean page" - blank, white - Exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play
"a clean fight" - sporting, sporty, sportsmanlike - Without difficulties or problems
"a clean test flight" - Thorough and without qualification
"a clean getaway"; "a clean sweep"; "a clean break" - Not carrying concealed weapons
- Free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed
"he landed a clean left on his opponent's cheek"; "a clean throw" - neat - Free of drugs
"after a long dependency on heroin she has been clean for 4 years" Noun: clean kleen- A weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then jerked overhead
- clean and jerk Adverb: clean kleen- Completely; used as intensifiers
"clean forgot the appointment"; "I'm clean tuckered out" - plumb, plum - In conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating
- fairly, fair
Derived forms: cleanest, cleans, cleaner, cleaning, cleaned See also: adroit, antiseptic, cleanable, cleaner, cleaning, cleanly, cleanness, complete, cosher, decent, dry-cleaned, easy, empty, fair, fresh, halal, immaculate, just, kosher, legible, moral, perfect, pristine, pure, scrubbed, speckless, spic, spic-and-span, spick, spick-and-span, spotless, tidy, unaddicted, unarmed, unqualified, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, unused, washed, water-washed Type of: alter, be, change, clean up, deprive, divest, groom, modify, neaten, remove, square away, straighten, straighten out, strip, take, take away, tidy, tidy up, weightlift, weightlifting, withdraw Antonym: dirty, unclean Encyclopedia: Clean Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate Clean, Shaven |