clean

Plural: cleans

Noun

• a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then jerked overhead
• Removal of dirt.
• The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders.
• Clear vocals, contrasted with death growls and screams.

Verb

Verb Forms: cleaned, cleaning, cleans

• To remove dirt or impurities from something.
• make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from
  • "Clean the stove!"
  • "The dentist cleaned my teeth"
• remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
  • "Clean the turkey"
• clean and tidy up the house
  • "She housecleans every week"
• clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing
  • "clean up before you see your grandparents"
  • "clean your fingernails before dinner"
• be cleanable
  • "This stove cleans easily"
• deprive wholly of money in a gambling game, robbery, etc.
  • "The other players cleaned him completely"
• remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely
  • "The boys cleaned the sandwich platters"
  • "The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm"
• remove while making clean
  • "Clean the spots off the rug"
• remove unwanted substances from
• remove shells or husks from
  • "clean grain before milling it"
• To remove dirt from a place or object.
• To tidy up, make a place neat.
• To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.
• To make things clean in general.
• To remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.).
• 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.
• To purge a raw of any blemishes caused by the scanning process such as brown tinting and poor color contrast.
• Synonym of clean up.
• To remove guts and/or scales of a butchered animal.

Adjective

• Free from dirt, impurities, or moral blemish.
• free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits
  • "children with clean shining faces"
  • "clean white shirts"
  • "clean dishes"
  • "a spotlessly clean house"
  • "cats are clean animals"
• ritually clean or pure
• not spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination
  • "a clean fuel"
  • "cleaner and more efficient engines"
  • "the tactical bomb is reasonably clean"
• (of behavior or especially language) free from objectionable elements; fit for all observers
  • "good clean fun"
  • "a clean joke"

Adjective Satellite

• free of restrictions or qualifications
  • "a clean bill of health"
• (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims
  • "efforts to obtain a clean bass in orchestral recordings"
• free from impurities
  • "clean water"
• (of a record) having no marks of discredit or offense
  • "a clean voting record"
  • "a clean driver's license"
• free from sepsis or infection
  • "a clean (or uninfected) wound"
• morally pure
  • "led a clean life"
• (of a manuscript) having few alterations or corrections
  • "a clean manuscript"
• (of a surface) not written or printed on
  • "a clean page"
• exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play
  • "a clean fight"
• without difficulties or problems
  • "a clean test flight"
• thorough and without qualification
  • "a clean getaway"
  • "a clean sweep"
  • "a clean break"
• not carrying concealed weapons
• free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed
  • "he landed a clean left on his opponent's cheek"
  • "a clean throw"
• free of drugs
  • "after a long dependency on heroin she has been clean for 4 years"

Adverb

• completely; used as intensifiers
  • "clean forgot the appointment"
• in conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating

Adj

• Free of dirt, filth, or impurities (extraneous matter); not dirty, filthy, or soiled.
• Free of dirt, filth, or impurities (extraneous matter); not dirty, filthy, or soiled.
• Having relatively few impurities.
• Free of contamination, (unwanted) germs, infection, or disease.
• Free of contamination, (unwanted) germs, infection, or disease.
• Devoid of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
• Free of imperfections, blemishes, or defects.
• Of a victory or performance: without any blemishes such as submission holds, disqualification, interference, etc.
• Free of imperfections, blemishes, or defects.
• Ascended without falling.
• Free of imperfections, blemishes, or defects.
• Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects.
• Free of imperfections, blemishes, or defects.
• In an unmarked condition; blank.
• Free of immorality or criminality.
• Pure, especially morally or religiously.
• Free of immorality or criminality.
• Not using drugs or alcohol.
• Free of immorality or criminality.
• Free from (or showing no signs of) corrupt, unlawful, and/or sinister conduct or connections (and (of criminal, driving, etc. records) therefore without restrictions or penalties).
• Free of immorality or criminality.
• Not in possession of weapons or contraband such as drugs.
• Free of immorality or criminality.
• Devoid of profanity.
• Free of infiltration by covert listening or recording devices (bugs), enemy spies, etc.
• Empty.
• Smooth, exact, and performed well.
• That does not damage the environment (as much as some alternative).
• Allowing an uninterrupted flow over surfaces, without protrusions such as racks or landing gear.
• Having the undercarriage and flaps in the up position.
• Well-proportioned; shapely.
• Cool or neat.
• Utter, complete, total; pure; free from restraint.

Adv

• Fully and completely.

Examples

• A CLEAN board often indicates a player is setting up for big points, or has just used them.
• a clean leap over a fence
• a clean left-footed shot into the top corner of the goal
• a clean sweep
• Are these dishes clean? Your room is finally clean! For a baby, happiness is a full bottle and a clean diaper.
• Can you clean the windows today?
• clean coal
• clean energy
• clean land
• clean limbs
• clean steel
• clean timber
• clean tourism
• Clean your room right now!
• Give the pan a thorough clean.
• go clean
• He needed to CLEAN his rack of all those low-point tiles to draw better ones.
• He was stabbed clean through.
• I want to make sure my fiancé is clean before we are married.
• I'll need a sharper knife to make clean cuts.
• I'm clean, officer. You can go ahead and search me if you want.
• I've been clean this time for eight months.
• Mister, I want to see a clean dinner plate or there'll be no dessert for you.
• Our kids can watch this movie because it is clean.
• Put a clean sheet of paper into the printer.
• She just likes to clean. That’s why I married her.
• The cargo hold is clean.
• The fishmonger cleaned the mackerel.
• The wave went clean over the old lighthouse.
• This place needs a clean.
• Unlike you, I’ve never caused any accidents — my record is still clean!
• We are currently clean on OPSEC.
• Wow, dude, those are some clean shoes ya got there!
• You must be clean mad.

Synonyms

blank, clean and jerk, clean house, clean-living, cleanse, clear, fair, fairly, fresh, houseclean, light, make clean, neat, pick, plum, plumb, scavenge, sporting, sportsmanlike, sporty, strip, unclouded, uncontaminating, uninfected, unobjectionable, white, clean, clean as a whistle, clean up, empty, empty as a pauper's purse, empty as the tomb on Easter, immaculate, leer, pristine, spick-and-span, spotless, squeaky clean, stainless, toom, unfilled, unsoiled, unsullied, vacant, vacuous, vacuumlike, void

Antonyms

dirty, unclean, unfairly

Related Words

dry-clean, make clean, pure, vacuum-clean

Anagrams of clean