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Meaning of clean

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

clean

Pronunciation:/kleːn//kliːn//klin/

noun

Definitions

  1. Removal of dirt.

    Example: This place needs a clean.

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

verb

Definitions

  1. To remove dirt from a place or object.

    Example: Can you clean the windows today?

  2. To tidy up, make a place neat.

    Example: Clean your room right now!

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

  4. To make things clean in general.

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

adjective

Definitions

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

  2. (heading, behavioural) Free of immorality or criminality.

  3. Smooth, exact, and performed well

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

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

adverb

Definitions

  1. Fully and completely.

    Example: He was stabbed clean through.