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clean adjective
Meaning : Free from dirt or impurities. Or having clean habits.
Example :
Children with clean shining faces.
Clean white shirts.
Clean dishes.
A spotlessly clean house.
Cats are clean animals.
Soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime.
Dirty unswept sidewalks.A child in dirty overalls.
Dirty slums.
Piles of dirty dishes.
Put his dirty feet on the clean sheet.
Wore an unclean shirt.
Mining is a dirty job.
Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves.
dirty, soiled, unclean
Meaning : Free of restrictions or qualifications.
Example :
A clean bill of health.
A clear winner.
Synonyms : clear
Meaning : (of a record) having no marks of discredit or offense.
Example :
A clean voting record.
A clean driver's license.
Meaning : Not spreading pollution or contamination. Especially radioactive contamination.
Example :
A clean fuel.
Cleaner and more efficient engines.
The tactical bomb is reasonably clean.
Synonyms : uncontaminating
Spreading pollution or contamination. Especially radioactive contamination.
The air near the foundry was always dirty.A dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout.
contaminating, dirty
Meaning : (of behavior or especially language) free from objectionable elements. Fit for all observers.
Example :
Good clean fun.
A clean joke.
Synonyms : unobjectionable
(of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency.
Dirty words.A dirty old man.
Dirty books and movies.
Boys telling dirty jokes.
Has a dirty mouth.
dirty
Meaning : Free from sepsis or infection.
Example :
A clean (or uninfected) wound.
Synonyms : uninfected
Meaning : (of a manuscript) having few alterations or corrections.
Example :
Fair copy.
A clean manuscript.
Synonyms : fair
Meaning : Exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play.
Example :
A clean fight.
A sporting solution of the disagreement.
Sportsmanlike conduct.
Synonyms : sporting, sportsmanlike, sporty
Meaning : Without difficulties or problems.
Example :
A clean test flight.
Meaning : Thorough and without qualification.
Example :
A clean getaway.
A clean sweep.
A clean break.
Meaning : Not carrying concealed weapons.
Meaning : Free from clumsiness. Precisely or deftly executed.
Example :
He landed a clean left on his opponent's cheek.
A clean throw.
The neat exactness of the surgeon's knife.
Synonyms : neat
Meaning : Free of drugs.
Example :
After a long dependency on heroin she has been clean for 4 years.
clean verb
Meaning : Remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits.
Example :
Clean the turkey.
Synonyms : pick
Meaning : Clean and tidy up the house.
Example :
She housecleans every week.
Synonyms : clean house, houseclean
Meaning : Clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing.
Example :
Clean up before you see your grandparents.
Clean your fingernails before dinner.
Synonyms : cleanse
Meaning : Be cleanable.
Example :
This stove cleans easily.
Meaning : Deprive wholly of money in a gambling game, robbery, etc..
Example :
The other players cleaned him completely.
Meaning : Remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely.
Example :
The boys cleaned the sandwich platters.
The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm.
Synonyms : strip
Meaning : Remove while making clean.
Example :
Clean the spots off the rug.
Meaning : Remove unwanted substances from.
Synonyms : scavenge
Meaning : Remove shells or husks from.
Example :
Clean grain before milling it.
clean noun
Meaning : A weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then jerked overhead.
Synonyms : clean and jerk
clean adverb
Meaning : In conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating.
Example :
They played fairly.
In an unfair manner.
They dealt with him unfairly.Their accusations hit below the belt.
below the belt, unfairly
