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Clean

/kleːn/

Removal of dirt.

📖 Definitions of "Clean"

noun
  1. 1

    Removal of dirt.

    "This place needs a clean."

  2. 2

    The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders.

verb
  1. 1

    To remove dirt from a place or object.

    "Can you clean the windows today?"

  2. 2

    To tidy up, make a place neat.

    "Clean your room right now!"

  3. 3

    To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.

  4. 4

    To make things clean in general.

    "She just likes to clean. That’s why I married her."

adjective
  1. 1

    (heading, physical) Free of dirt or impurities or protruberances.

  2. 2

    (heading, behavioural) Free of immorality or criminality.

  3. 3

    Smooth, exact, and performed well

    "I’ll need a sharper knife to make clean cuts.  a clean leap over a fence"

  4. 4

    Total; utter. (still in "clean sweep")

adverb
  1. 1

    Fully and completely.

    "He was stabbed clean through."

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