clean
Meaning of clean
noun
- Removal of dirt.
This place needs a clean.
- The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders.
- To remove dirt from a place or object.
Can you clean the windows today?
- To tidy up, make a place neat.
Clean your room right now!
- To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.
- To make things clean in general.
She just likes to clean. That’s why I married her.
- To remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.).
- To brush the ice lightly in front of a moving rock to remove any debris and ensure a correct line; less vigorous than a sweep.
- To purge a raw of any blemishes caused by the scanning process such as brown tinting and poor color contrast.
- To remove guts and/or scales of a butchered animal.
- (heading, physical) Free of dirt or impurities or protruberances.
- (heading, behavioural) Free of immorality or criminality.
- Smooth, exact, and performed well
I’ll need a sharper knife to make clean cuts. a clean leap over a fence
- Total; utter. (still in "clean sweep")
- Cool or neat.
Wow, Dude, those are some clean shoes ya got there!
- (health) Being free of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
I want to make sure my fiancé is clean before we are married.
- That does not damage the environment.
clean energy; clean coal
- Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects.
clean land; clean timber
- Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.
- Well-proportioned; shapely.
clean limbs
- (of a route) Ascended without falling.
- Fully and completely.
He was stabbed clean through.
Information about clean
- The plural form of clean is: cleans.
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Hyphenation of clean
clean
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- clean is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
clean synonyms
Meaning clear:
Meaning fresh:
Meaning uncontaminating:
Meaning unobjectionable:
Meaning uninfected:
Meaning fair:
Meaning blank:
Meaning sporting:
sporting, sporty, sportsmanlike
Meaning neat:
Meaning pick:
Meaning houseclean:
Meaning cleanse:
Meaning strip:
Meaning scavenge:
Meaning plumb:
Meaning fairly:
clean antonyms
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Translation of clean
- German: proper, sauber, reinlich, schmutzfrei
- French: propre, purifier, nettoyer
- Spanish: limpio, limpiar
- Italian: pulito, pulire, ripulire
- Portuguese: limpo
Anagrams of clean
Ancel, ancle, Calen, canel, Lance, lance, Lenca
Words that rhyme with clean
Lean, lean, Daedalean, Tantalean, calean, cannibalean, cordaitalean, euryalean, Damoclean, Empedoclean, Heraclean, MacLean, Maclean, McLean, Periclean, Sophoclean, aseptoclean, bactraclean, bioclean, heraclean, houseclean, hyperclean, overclean, periclean, preclean, reclean, sophoclean, superclean, thericlean, ultraclean, unclean, Aristotelean, Elean, Mephistophelean, Pasitelean, Praxitelean, aristotelean, mephistophelean, pelean, spelean, glean, upglean, Abbevilean, Cailean, Chilean, Galilean, Zoilean, chilean, crocodilean, galilean
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