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Clean

adjective
(compar. cleaner; superl. cleanest)
1.
Free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits.  "Clean white shirts" , "Clean dishes" , "A spotlessly clean house" , "Cats are clean animals"
2.
Free of restrictions or qualifications.  Synonym: clear.  "A clear winner"
3.
(of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims.  Synonyms: clear, light, unclouded.  "Clear laughter like a waterfall" , "Clear reds and blues" , "A light lilting voice like a silver bell"
4.
Free from impurities.  Synonym: fresh.  "Fresh air"
5.
(of a record) having no marks of discredit or offense.  "A clean driver's license"
6.
Ritually clean or pure.
7.
Not spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination.  Synonym: uncontaminating.  "Cleaner and more efficient engines" , "The tactical bomb is reasonably clean"
8.
(of behavior or especially language) free from objectionable elements; fit for all observers.  Synonym: unobjectionable.  "A clean joke"
9.
Free from sepsis or infection.  Synonym: uninfected.
10.
Morally pure.  Synonym: clean-living.
11.
(of a manuscript) having few alterations or corrections.  Synonym: fair.  "A clean manuscript"
12.
(of a surface) not written or printed on.  Synonyms: blank, white.  "Fill in the blank spaces" , "A clean page" , "Wide white margins"
13.
Exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play.  Synonyms: sporting, sportsmanlike, sporty.  "A sporting solution of the disagreement" , "Sportsmanlike conduct"
14.
Without difficulties or problems.
15.
Thorough and without qualification.  "A clean sweep" , "A clean break"
16.
Not carrying concealed weapons.
17.
Free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed.  Synonym: neat.  "A clean throw" , "The neat exactness of the surgeon's knife"
18.
Free of drugs.
verb
(past & past part. cleaned; pres. part. cleaning)
1.
Make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from.  Synonym: make clean.  "The dentist cleaned my teeth"
2.
Remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits.  Synonym: pick.
3.
Clean and tidy up the house.  Synonyms: clean house, houseclean.
4.
Clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing.  Synonym: cleanse.  "Clean your fingernails before dinner"
5.
Be cleanable.
6.
Deprive wholly of money in a gambling game, robbery, etc..
7.
Remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely.  Synonym: strip.  "The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm"
8.
Remove while making clean.
9.
Remove unwanted substances from.  Synonym: scavenge.
10.
Remove shells or husks from.
noun
1.
A weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then jerked overhead.  Synonym: clean and jerk.
adverb
1.
Completely; used as intensifiers.  Synonyms: plum, plumb.  "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out"
2.
In conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating.  Synonyms: fair, fairly.



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"Clean" Quotes from Famous Books



... and every trace of the dead into the sea. The body of Daggett had disappeared, with the snow-bank in which it had been buried; and all the carcases of the seals had been washed away. In a word, the rocks were as naked and as clean as if man's foot had never passed over them. From the facts that skeletons of seals had been found strewed along the north shore, and the present void, Roswell was led to infer that the late storm had been one of unusual intensity, and most probably ...
— The Sea Lions - The Lost Sealers • James Fenimore Cooper
... further till the evening, and passed other skeletons of moose and carribboo deer, picked clean by the carrion-birds. They saw the marks of many fires, and the remains of a large encampment, deserted perhaps three weeks before. Some of the older hunters said that, from the prints of the snow-shoes, they knew the Mic-Mac Indians of New Brunswick were those who had swept ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. • Various
... Extremely small. "A marginal increase in {core} can decrease {GC} time drastically." In everyday terms, this means that it is a lot easier to clean off your desk if you have a spare place to put some of the junk while you sort through it. 2. Of extremely small merit. "This proposed new feature seems rather marginal to me." 3. Of extremely small ...
— THE JARGON FILE, VERSION 2.9.10
... principally by the Middle States. Pennsylvania and New York would have it so; and what were we to do? Were we to stand aloof from the occupations which others were pursuing around us? Were we to pick clean teeth on a constitutional doubt which a majority in the councils of the nation had overruled? No, Sir; we had no option. All that was left us was to fall in with the settled policy of the country; because, if any thing can ...
— The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster • Daniel Webster
... Templeton almost long enough," the young man resumed, laughing, "to set up as a candidate for the public favour, if I rightly understand the claims of a denizen. By what I can gather from casual remarks, the old proverb that 'the new broom sweeps clean' applies with singular fidelity throughout all ...
— Home as Found • James Fenimore Cooper


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