noun
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Removal of dirt.
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This place needs a clean.
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The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders.
verb
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To remove dirt from a place or object.
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Can you clean the windows today?
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To tidy up, make a place neat.
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Clean your room right now!
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To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.
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To make things clean in general.
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She just likes to clean. That’s why I married her.
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To remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.).
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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.
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To purge a raw of any blemishes caused by the scanning process such as brown tinting and poor color contrast.
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To remove guts and/or scales of a butchered animal.
adjective
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(heading, physical) Free of dirt or impurities or protruberances.
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(heading, behavioural) Free of immorality or criminality.
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Smooth, exact, and performed well
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I’ll need a sharper knife to make clean cuts. a clean leap over a fence
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Total; utter. (still in "clean sweep")
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Cool or neat.
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Wow, Dude, those are some clean shoes ya got there!
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(health) Being free of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
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I want to make sure my fiancé is clean before we are married.
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That does not damage the environment.
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clean energy; clean coal
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Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects.
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clean land; clean timber
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Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.
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Well-proportioned; shapely.
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clean limbs
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(of a route) Ascended without falling.
adverb
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Fully and completely.
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He was stabbed clean through.