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Cleaning

noun

The act of making something clean. Synonyms: cleansing, cleanup.

Clean

verb

(past & past part. cleaned; pres. part. cleaning)

Make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from. Synonym: make clean. "The dentist cleaned my teeth"

Remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits. Synonym: pick.

Clean and tidy up the house. Synonyms: clean house, houseclean.

Clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing. Synonym: cleanse. "Clean your fingernails before dinner"

Be cleanable.

Deprive wholly of money in a gambling game, robbery, etc..

Remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely. Synonym: strip. "The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm"

Remove while making clean.

Remove unwanted substances from. Synonym: scavenge.

10.

Remove shells or husks from.

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"Cleaning" Quotes from Famous Books

... them in what manner they should go out against this great power of the Moors. And when they had taken counsel the Cid went to sleep upon his seat, and the Infantes and the others sate playing at tables and chess. Now at this time the men who were keepers of the lion were cleaning the court, and when they heard the cry that the Moors were coming, they opened the den, and came down into the palace where the Cid was, and left the door of the court open. And when the lion had ate his meat and saw ...

— Chronicle Of The Cid • Various

... floors of the numerous bed-chambers, which were only enlivened here and there with small strips or bands of Dutch carpet, sent up a homely odour of soft soap; for Mrs. Tadman took a fierce delight in cleaning, and the solitary household drudge who toiled under her orders had a hard time of it. There was a dismal kind of neatness about everything, and a bleak empty look in the sparsely furnished rooms, which wore no pleasant ...

— Fenton's Quest • M. E. Braddon

... balusters for Sarah to come and take them away at once. When you get outside the rooms she pauses, with her hand upon the door, to explain to you that they are rather untidy just at present, as the last lodger left only yesterday; and she also adds that this is their cleaning-day—it always is. With this understanding you enter, and both stand solemnly feasting your eyes upon the scene before you. The rooms cannot be said to appear inviting. Even "mother's" face betrays no admiration. Untenanted "furnished apartments" viewed in the morning sunlight ...

— Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow • Jerome K. Jerome

... scour your head every two or three days or it is full of grit. Your clothes must collect just as much dirt as your hair. If you wear white clothes you are clean, and your cleaning bill gets so heavy that you have to take care. I am proud to say that I can wear a white suit of clothes without a blemish for three days. If you need any further instruction in the matter of clothes I shall be glad to give it to you. I hope I ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... didn't know," the little girl replied, "'cause when Nora's cleaning closets, and finds old things, mama says: 'Take that trumpery out to the waste barrel,' and you say trump isn't same ...

— Princess Polly's Playmates • Amy Brooks

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