Word Definitions & Examples
adjective
Sense 1
"children with clean shining faces"
"clean white shirts"
"clean dishes"
"a spotlessly clean house"
"cats are clean animals"
adjective satellite
Sense 3
"efforts to obtain a clean bass in orchestral recordings"
"clear laughter like a waterfall"
"clear reds and blues"
"a light lilting voice like a silver bell"
Similar:
pure
adjective
Sense 4
"good clean fun"
"a clean joke"
Similar:
antiseptic
Opposites:
dirty
See also:
decent
adjective
Sense 5
"a clean fuel"
"cleaner and more efficient engines"
"the tactical bomb is reasonably clean"
adjective
Sense 6
See also:
pure
adjective satellite
Sense 8
"a clean fight"
"a sporting solution of the disagreement"
"sportsmanlike conduct"
adjective satellite
Sense 13
"he landed a clean left on his opponent''s cheek"
"a clean throw"
"the neat exactness of the surgeon''s knife"
Similar:
adroit
adjective satellite
Sense 14
"after a long dependency on heroin she has been clean for 4 years"
Similar:
unaddicted
adverb
Sense 15
"clean forgot the appointment"
"I''m plumb (or plum) tuckered out"
verb
Sense 16
"Clean the turkey"
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
verb
Sense 17
"clean grain before milling it"
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
verb
Sense 18
"Clean the spots off the rug"
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
verb
Sense 19
"Clean the stove!"
"The dentist cleaned my teeth"
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
verb
Sense 21
"The boys cleaned the sandwich platters"
"The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm"
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s to somebody
Somebody ----s something with something
verb
Sense 22
"The other players cleaned him completely"
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s something with something
verb
Sense 23
be cleanable
"This stove cleans easily"
Type of:
be
Verb group:
make clean
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something to somebody
adjective satellite
Sense 26
"blank pages"
"fill in the blank spaces"
"a clean page"
"wide white margins"
Similar:
empty
noun
Sense 27
Type of:
weightlifting
verb
Sense 28
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
verb
Sense 29
"clean up before you see your grandparents"
"clean your fingernails before dinner"
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Somebody ----s something with something
verb
Sense 30
"She housecleans every week"
Kinds of:
spring-clean
Verb group:
make clean
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s something
Semantic Complexity
100%
Sense Count
31
Total Synonyms
27
Total Relationships
116
Times Searched
3
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