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Clean

noun
/kleːn/
Word Frequency: 31.8

Definitions

1.nounRemoval of dirt.
"This place needs a clean."
2.nounThe first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders.
3.verbTo remove dirt from a place or object.
"Can you clean the windows today?"
4.verbTo tidy up, make a place neat.
"Clean your room right now!"
5.verbTo remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.
6.verbTo make things clean in general.
"She just likes to clean. That’s why I married her."
7.verbTo remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.).
8.verbTo brush the ice lightly in front of a moving rock to remove any debris and ensure a correct line; less vigorous than a sweep.
9.verbTo purge a raw of any blemishes caused by the scanning process such as brown tinting and poor color contrast.
10.verbTo remove guts and/or scales of a butchered animal.
11.adjective(heading, physical) Free of dirt or impurities or protruberances.
12.adjective(heading, behavioural) Free of immorality or criminality.
13.adjectiveSmooth, exact, and performed well
"I’ll need a sharper knife to make clean cuts.  a clean leap over a fence"
14.adjectiveTotal; utter. (still in "clean sweep")
15.adjectiveCool or neat.
"Wow, Dude, those are some clean shoes ya got there!"
16.adjective(health) Being free of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
"I want to make sure my fiancé is clean before we are married."
17.adjectiveThat does not damage the environment.
"clean energy;  clean coal"
18.adjectiveFree from that which is useless or injurious; without defects.
"clean land;  clean timber"
19.adjectiveFree from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.
20.adjectiveWell-proportioned; shapely.
"clean limbs"
21.adjective(of a route) Ascended without falling.
22.adverbFully and completely.
"He was stabbed clean through."

Synonyms

cleanspotlessspecklessimmaculateunsoiledpristinepureunblemishedunobjectionableunstaineduncloudedclean-living

Antonyms

dirtyunclean

Rhymes With

keenobscenemeanbyzantinelibertinecareenleandemean
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