clean
Meaning
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- Free of dirt or impurities.
- Free of dirt or impurities.
- Free of dirt or impurities.
- Free of dirt or impurities.
- Free of dirt or impurities.
- Free of dirt or impurities.
- Free of immorality or criminality.
- Free of immorality or criminality.
- Free of immorality or criminality.
- (informal) Free of immorality or criminality.
- (informal) Free of immorality or criminality.
- Smooth, exact, and performed well.
- (obsolete) Total; utter. (still in "clean sweep")
- (informal) Cool or neat.
- Free of infection or disease.
- Free of infection or disease.
- That does not damage the environment.
- Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects.
- Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.
- Well-proportioned; shapely.
- Ascended without falling.
- (slang) Of a victory or performance: without any submission holds, disqualification, interference, etc.
Synonyms
make clean
free of debt
very clean
cleared up
in good order
wash clothes
uncontaminating
clean thing
fine thing
be bright
brush teeth
light in color
make clear
make pure
scrape out
sweep clean
wash something
become clean
swab down
clear weeds
flat and smooth
make ripe
spotless unblemished
relating to what is pure
health inspection
clean trade
clean letter of credit
free of impurities
apinoid
(to) sanitize
(to) sanitise
put in order
rectify
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kliːn/
Etymology
From Middle English clene, clane, from Old English clǣne (“clean, pure”), from Proto-West Germanic *klainī (“shining, fine, splendid, tender”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *glēy- (“gleaming”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to gleam”). Cognate with Scots clean (“absolute, pure, clear, empty”) and clene, clane (“clean”), North Frisian klien (“small”), Dutch klein (“small”), Low German kleen (“small”), German klein (“small”), Swedish klen (“weak, feeble, delicate”), Icelandic klénn (“poor, feeble, petty, snug, puny, cheesy, lame”).
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