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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"  Antonym: dirty.
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.  Antonym: unclean.
7.
Not spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination.  Synonym: uncontaminating.  "Cleaner and more efficient engines" , "The tactical bomb is reasonably clean"  Antonym: dirty.
8.
(of behavior or especially language) free from objectionable elements; fit for all observers.  Synonym: unobjectionable.  "A clean joke"  Antonym: dirty.
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"  Antonym: dirty.
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.  Antonym: unfairly.



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"Clean" Quotes from Famous Books



... are habitually profane always feel a contemptuous yet pitying regret when they hear a foul word fall from a mouth they expected to be clean. You want people you live among to believe in you. They are not going to believe in you spontaneously. You are on trial every day of your first few years among them. As you go in and out among them they acquire a confidence in you which finally grows into an unquestioning faith. Beware ...
— The Young Man and the World • Albert J. Beveridge
... boy of about sixteen, who constituted the whole crew of the Johannes, and was as dirty as his master was clean. I felt a certain envious reverence for this unprepossessing youth, seeing in him a much more efficient counterpart of myself; but how he and his little master ever managed to work their ungainly vessel was a miracle I never understood. Phlegmatically impervious to rain ...
— Riddle of the Sands • Erskine Childers
... do at Lowick, Dodo? You say yourself there is nothing to be done there: everybody is so clean and well off, it makes you quite melancholy. And here you have been so happy going all about Tipton with Mr. Garth into the worst backyards. And now uncle is abroad, you and Mr. Garth can have it all your own way; and I am sure James ...
— Middlemarch • George Eliot
... forward and took off their hats. Their faces shone with the scrubbing with soap and water they had given them, and both had on clean collars. Sammy dived in his trowsers pocket and brought out a couple of big brass thimbles and some needles stuck in a bit ...
— Miss Elliot's Girls • Mrs Mary Spring Corning
... Sir, will render you as happy—but I must haste— this Night prepare your Daughter and your Niece, and let your House be dress'd, perfum'd, and clean. ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. III • Aphra Behn


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