clean
/kliːn/ verb A1- 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 make things clean in general. · She just likes to clean. That’s why I married her.
- To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.
- 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 lift a weight from the ground to one's shoulders.
He/she/it cleans · Past cleaned · Past participle cleaned · -ing form cleaning
Verb forms
- Base form
- clean
- He/she/it
- cleans
- Past
- cleaned
- Past participle
- cleaned
- -ing form
- cleaning
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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A tall, sunburned, capable-looking, clean-shaved man looked in at us.
It’s clean against common sense!
White Mason was a quiet, comfortable-looking person in a loose tweed suit, with a clean-shaved, ruddy face, a stoutish body, and powerful bandy legs adorned with gaiters, looking like a small farmer, a retired gamekeeper, or anything upon earth except a very favourable specimen of the provincial criminal officer.
There’s no other place; but I hear that it is clean and good.
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