Meanings
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comparative cleaner · superlative cleanest · alternative pronunciation spelling clane · alternative obsolete cleane
- Free of dirt, filth, or impurities (extraneous matter); not dirty, filthy, or soiled.
Are these dishes clean? Your room is finally clean! For a baby, happiness is a full bottle and a clean diaper.
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Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefully furnished, and was very clean. There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLCVery fine, well-sorted, clean sand with no shells.
1964, Coastal Engineering Research Center (U.S.), Technical Memorandum - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Coastal Engineering Research Center, page 69Scientists believe they have identified the world’s cleanest air, free from particles caused by human activity, located over the Southern Ocean, which surrounds Antarctica.
2020 June 2, Amy Woodyatt, “Scientists say they have found the cleanest air on Earth”, in CNN- Of metal, having relatively few impurities.
clean steel
- Free of contamination, (unwanted) germs, infection, or disease.
Insert a clean swab into your nose.
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"Serious as cognitohazard." Lillihammer danced down the corridor towards them, doing little pirouettes and leaping from toe to toe. "Reuben Wirth no longer exists. Gonna have to get Forsythe to do that brain scan to make sure I'm clean, but otherwise yeah. Poof."
2023 October 14, HarryBlank, “Face Time”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 23 May 2024- Devoid of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
I want to make sure my fiancé is clean before we are married.
- Free of imperfections, blemishes, or defects.
- slanggovernmentOf a victory or performance: without any blemishes such as submission holds, disqualification, interference, etc.
Our team won, but it wasn't clean.
- Free of immorality or criminality.
- Pure, especially morally or religiously.
Our kids can watch this movie because it is clean.
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Create in me a clean heart, O God.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 51:10Ah! let me knot be fool'd, sweet saints. I trust / That I am whole, and clean, and meet for Heaven.
1833 (date written), Alfred Tennyson, “St. Simeon Stylites”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 63I do not think there is any member in this House who will not agree that that is the clean thing to do. Any member sitting on the Government benches will admit in private that that is the proper course for members who break faith.
1914, Parliamentary Debates, volume 168, New Zealand, page 195 - Not using drugs or alcohol.
go clean
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I've been clean this time for eight months.
Ten months sober, I must admit Just because you're clean, don't mean you don't miss it Ten months older, I won't give in Now that I'm clean, I'm never gonna risk it
2014 October 27, Taylor Swift, Imogen Heap, “Clean (Taylor's Version)”, in 1989 (Taylor's Version), performed by Taylor Swift, published 27 October 2023 - 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).
Unlike you, I’ve never caused any accidents — my record is still clean!
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It was my dream to be a Soviet spy. The vetting process started, and I was “clean”: no Jews in either my background or my wife's, no relatives abroad, already a member of the Soviet Communist Party, high marks on exams, three foreign languages, no dissident inclinations[…]
2009 May 26, John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, Alexander Vassiliev, Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America, Yale University Press, →ISBN"If the Tramells hadn't passed away, we still wouldn't know. The background check was clean." "How can it be clean, for fuck's sake?" I knocked back the whiskey in one swallow. "Eva's mother used Monica's name, birthdate, and family history, but she never opened a line of credit, which is how most identity theft is discovered."
2016 April 5, Sylvia Day, One with You, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN - informalNot in possession of weapons or contraband such as drugs.
I'm clean, officer. You can go ahead and search me if you want.
- Free of infiltration by covert listening or recording devices (bugs), enemy spies, etc.
We are currently clean on OPSEC.
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"[Are you sure the] room is clean?" "As a whistle. It's swept at irregular intervals every week." "That still leaves time to plant a bug[…]"
1989, Gayle Rivers, The Killing House, Jove Books, →ISBN - Empty.
The cargo hold is clean.
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The condo was stripped clean by the previous tenant.
Mister, I want to see a clean dinner plate or there'll be no dessert for you.
Synonyms: vacant, void, empty, empty as a pauper's purse, empty as the tomb on Easter, leer, toom, unfilled
- That does not damage the environment (as much as some alternative).
clean coal
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clean energy
clean tourism
In a press release, CARB expanded on their decision. "The LCFS reduces air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions by setting a declining carbon intensity target for transportation fuels used in California; producers that don't meet established benchmarks buy credits from those that do. This system has generated $4 billion in annual private sector investment toward a cleaner transportation sector."
2024 November 8, Luz Pena, “California's gas prices could have major increase with passing of new fuel standards”, in ABC7 News - aerodynamicsAllowing an uninterrupted flow over surfaces, without protrusions such as racks or landing gear.
- Well-proportioned; shapely.
clean limbs
- Utter, complete, total; pure; free from restraint.
a clean sweep
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When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of corners of thy field.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 23:22The clean thrill of getting the right answer gave me a sense of efficacy and rootedness. Even so, on tests at school I rarely got good grades, because I had a terrible habit of not showing my work.
2023 July 18, Arianne Shahvisi, Arguing for a Better World: How Philosophy Can Help Us Fight for Social Justice, Penguin, →ISBN, page 1
plural cleans · alternative pronunciation spelling clane · alternative obsolete cleane
- hobbiesThe first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders.
- in pluralentertainmentOf heavy metal, clear vocals, contrasted with death growls and screams.
Vocalist Kaan is impeccable in his performance engaging with the crowd and soulfully executing both searing screams and hauntingly melodic cleans.
2016, Jay Shields, “Tech Fest 2016”, in Fraser Mutch, editor, Elite Online Mag, number 78, page 1552 more examples
When people complained the songs were too hard, Kyle's clean vocals could bail out the band. Adding cleans would set off a chain reaction though - Kyle's crisp, clear presence could be seen as "betraying" the raw assault that Mike inflicts on the fans with his screams and growls.
2014, T/James Reagan, Leeds House, Amazon Digital Services LLC, →ISBN, page 314The band's more recent output has seen a small amount of cleans find their way in, but for the most part, the Pennsylvania boys rely on the kind of devastating vocal delivery that can be heard on monumental career highlights such as "Marianas Trench."
2023 April 17, Jake Richardson, “10 Best Clean Singers in Metalcore”, in Loudwire, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2024
present singular third person cleans · participle present cleaning · participle past cleaned · past cleaned · alternative pronunciation spelling clane · alternative obsolete cleane
- intransitiveTo make things clean in general.
She just likes to clean. That’s why I married her.
- transitiveclimbingTo remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.
- transitivecomputingTo remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.).
- slangmangaTo purge a raw of any blemishes caused by the scanning process such as brown tinting and poor color contrast.
- transitivehobbiesTo lift a weight from the ground to one's shoulders.
Mike Aidala grunts as he cleans and presses 300 pounds up from the floor of his garage.
2026, Greg Presto, “Timeless Gains”, in Men's Health, volume 41, number 2, page 14
comparative cleaner · superlative cleanest · alternative pronunciation spelling clane · alternative obsolete cleane
- Fully and completely.
You must be clean mad.
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He was stabbed clean through.
The wave went clean over the old lighthouse.
Moreover, I find there are some Words now in French which are turned to a Countersense […] Cocu is taken for one whose Wife is light, and hath made him a passive Cuckold; whereas clean contrary, Cocu, which is the Cuckow, doth use to lay her Eggs in another Bird's Nest.
1655, James Howell, “To the Right Honourable the Earl of Clare”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLCSo, since all my pains in his direction were clean thrown away, there was nothing left for me but to scurry back to Marjorie, — so I scurried, and I found the house empty, no one there, and Marjorie gone.
1897, Richard Marsh, The BeetleIt strikes me that you have come off uncommonly easy, seeing as how things were. No mess, no breakages, no odds and ends from every room that you can't remember until it's too late to claim. Just one big lot taken clean.
1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries
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Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveEmpty.
adjectiveHaving the undercarriage and flaps in the up position.
verbSynonym of clean up.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivefree from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits
adjectivefree of restrictions or qualifications
adjective(of a record) having no marks of discredit or offense
adjectivenot spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination
adjective(of behavior or especially language) free from objectionable elements; fit for all observers
adjectivefree from sepsis or infection
adjectivemorally pure
adjectiveexhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play
adjectivewithout difficulties or problems
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-West Germanic*klainī
- Old Englishclǣne
- Middle Englishclene
- Englishclean
From Middle English clene, from Old English clāne, clǣne (“clean; pure; clear”), from Proto-West Germanic *klainī (“dainty, fine, small; clean”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *glēy- (“gleaming”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to gleam”). Cognates Cognate with Alemannic German chlei, chli, chlii, chly, klei (“small”), Bavarian gloa, kla, klaa, kloa, kloan (“small; young; insignificant”), Central Franconian and Low German kleen (“small”), Cimbrian khlòan, khlumma (“small”), Dutch and German klein (“small”), Limburgish klein, kléïn (“small”), Luxembourgish kleng (“small”), Mòcheno khloa'n (“small”), Vilamovian klin (“small”), Yiddish קליין (kleyn, “small”), Danish klejn (“delicate, tiny”), Faroese klænur (“slight, slim, thin”), Icelandic klénn (“feeble, poor; indisposed; short; lame; good, pretty, snug”), Norwegian Bokmål klein, klen (“slender; sick; feeble; bad, poor, weak; inept”), Swedish klen (“weak”).
More words from Middle English, Old English, Proto-West Germanic
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Afrikaans skoon, skoon
- skoonnot having sexually transmitted diseases
- skoonin an unmarked condition
- reinpure, especially morally or religiously
- skoonnot in possession of weapons or contraband such as drugs
- blinkslang: cool or neat
- skoonnot dirty
- skoonnot having used mind-altering or mood-changing substances
Ancient Greek καθαρός
- καθαρός (katharós)not dirty
Arabic نَظِيف, نضيف
- نَظِيف (naẓīf)not dirty
- نضيف (naḍīf)not dirty
- نَظَّفَ (naẓẓafa)(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
Basque garbi
- garbinot dirty
Bengali পরিষ্কার, সাফ
- পরিষ্কার (poriśkar)not dirty
- সাফ (śaph)not dirty
- পরিষ্কার করা (poriśkar kora)(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- সাফ করা (śaph kora)(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- সাফ করা (śaph kora)(transitive) to tidy up
Bulgarian чист, чист
- чист (čist)in an unmarked condition
- чист (čist)pure, especially morally or religiously
- чист (čist)without restrictions or penalties
- чист (čist)not dirty
- изтласкване (iztlaskvane)first part of "clean and jerk" weightlifting
- чи́стя (čístja)(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- разтребвам (raztrebvam)(transitive) to tidy up
- почиствам (počistvam)(intransitive) to make things clean
- напълно (napălno)fully and completely
- изцяло (izcjalo)fully and completely
Catalan net, sa
- netnot having sexually transmitted diseases
- sanot having sexually transmitted diseases
- netin an unmarked condition
- purpure, especially morally or religiously
- netnot in possession of weapons or contraband such as drugs
- netsmooth, exact, and performed well
- netnot dirty
- netejar(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- netejar(transitive) to tidy up
- arreglar(transitive) to tidy up
- ordenar(transitive) to tidy up
Chinese Cantonese 乾淨 /干净
- 乾淨 /干净 (gon¹ zeng⁶)not dirty
Chinese Mandarin 整齊 /整齐, 純潔 /纯洁
- 整齊 /整齐 (zhěngqí)in an unmarked condition
- 純潔 /纯洁 (chúnjié)pure, especially morally or religiously
- 公正 (gōngzhèng)without restrictions or penalties
- 公正 (gōngzhèng)smooth, exact, and performed well
- 熟練 /熟练 (shúliàn)slang: cool or neat
- 乾淨 /干净 (gānjìng)not dirty
- 打掃 /打扫 (dǎsǎo)(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- 整理 (zhěnglǐ)(transitive) to tidy up
Czech čistý, čistit
- čistýnot dirty
- čistit(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- vyčistit(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- očistit(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- uklidit(transitive) to tidy up
- uklízet(intransitive) to make things clean
Danish ren, rense
- rennot dirty
- rense(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
Dutch blanco, leeg
- blancoin an unmarked condition
- leegpure, especially morally or religiously
- mooiesmooth, exact, and performed well
- prachtigslang: cool or neat
- schoonnot dirty
- propernot dirty
- voorslaanfirst part of "clean and jerk" weightlifting
- schoonmaken(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- kuisen(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- poetsen(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- reinigen(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- wassen(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- opruimen(transitive) to tidy up
- poetsen(intransitive) to make things clean
- schoonmaken(intransitive) to make things clean
- schoonfully and completely
- properfully and completely
Esperanto pura, poluri
- puranot dirty
- poluri(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
Estonian puhas, puhastama
- puhasnot dirty
- puhastama(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
Finnish puhdas, puhdas
- puhdasnot having sexually transmitted diseases
- puhdasin an unmarked condition
- tyhjäin an unmarked condition
- puhdaspure, especially morally or religiously
- viatonpure, especially morally or religiously
- puhdaswithout restrictions or penalties
- puhdassmooth, exact, and performed well
- sileäallowing an uninterrupted flow over surfaces
- siistislang: cool or neat
- puhdasnot dirty
- vetofirst part of "clean and jerk" weightlifting
- puhdistaa(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- siivota(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- siistiä(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- putsata(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- siivota(transitive) to tidy up
- puhdistaa(intransitive) to make things clean
- siivota(intransitive) to make things clean
- (kevyesti) harjata(intransitive) to brush lightly in front of a curling rock
- täysinfully and completely
French clean, pur
- cleannot having sexually transmitted diseases
- purpure, especially morally or religiously
- proprenot dirty
- netnot dirty
- cleannot having used mind-altering or mood-changing substances
- nettoyer(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- poutzer(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- ranger(transitive) to tidy up
- nettoyer(intransitive) to make things clean
German rein, sauber
- reinpure, especially morally or religiously
- saubersmooth, exact, and performed well
- sauberslang: cool or neat
- saubernot dirty
- reinnot dirty
- cleannot having used mind-altering or mood-changing substances
- reinigen(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- säubern(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- putzen(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- abwischen(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- abbuddse(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- aufräumen(transitive) to tidy up
- putzen(transitive) to tidy up
- reinigen(intransitive) to make things clean
- säubern(intransitive) to make things clean
- putzen(intransitive) to make things clean
Greek αγνός, αμόλυντος
- αγνός (agnós)pure, especially morally or religiously
- αμόλυντος (amólyntos)pure, especially morally or religiously
- καθαρός (katharós)not dirty
- καθαρίζω (katharízo)(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- συμμαζεύω (symmazévo)(transitive) to tidy up
Hawaiian maʻemaʻe
- maʻemaʻenot dirty
Hebrew טָהוֹר, נָקִי
- טָהוֹר (tahór)pure, especially morally or religiously
- נָקִי (nakí)not dirty
- נִקָּה (niká)(transitive) to tidy up
Hindi साफ़, स्वच्छ
- साफ़ (sāf)not dirty
- स्वच्छ (svacch)not dirty
- साफ़ करना (sāf karnā)(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- साफ़ करना (sāf karnā)(transitive) to tidy up
Hungarian tiszta, tisztít
- tisztanot dirty
- tisztít(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- takarít(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
Icelandic auður, hreinn
- auðurin an unmarked condition
- hreinnwithout restrictions or penalties
- hreinnnot dirty
- þrífa(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- hreinsa(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- þrífa(intransitive) to make things clean
Indonesian bersih
- bersihnot dirty
Irish glan, glan
- glanpure, especially morally or religiously
- glansmooth, exact, and performed well
- glannot dirty
- glan(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- glan(transitive) to tidy up
- glan(intransitive) to make things clean
- ar fadfully and completely
Italian pulito, pulito
- pulitowithout restrictions or penalties
- pulitonot in possession of weapons or contraband such as drugs
- pulitonot dirty
- pulitonot having used mind-altering or mood-changing substances
- pulire(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- nettare(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- ordinare(transitive) to tidy up
Japanese 清い, 清潔な
- 清い (kiyoi)not dirty
- 清潔な (seiketsu na)not dirty
- 綺麗な (kirei na)not dirty
- クリーン (kurīn)first part of "clean and jerk" weightlifting
- 掃除する (sōji suru)(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- 清潔にする (seiketsu ni suru)(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- 整理する (sēri suru)(transitive) to tidy up
- 整頓する (sēton suru)(transitive) to tidy up
- 片付ける (katazukeru)(transitive) to tidy up
- きれいにする (kirei ni suru)(intransitive) to make things clean
Korean 깨끗하다, 맑다
- 깨끗하다 (kkaekkeuthada)not dirty
- 맑다 (makda)not dirty
- 클린 (keullin)first part of "clean and jerk" weightlifting
- 청소하다 (cheongsohada)(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- 청소하다 (cheongsohada)(transitive) to tidy up
- 소제하다 (sojehada)(transitive) to tidy up
Latin pūrus, mundus
- pūrusnot dirty
- mundusnot dirty
- tersusnot dirty
- purgo(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- mundo(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- tergeo(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- ordinō(transitive) to tidy up
Latvian tīrs, tīrīt
- tīrsnot dirty
- tīrīt(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- notīrīt(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- iztīrīt(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- attīrīt(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- satīrīt(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- kārtot(transitive) to tidy up
- sakārtot(transitive) to tidy up
- tīrīt(intransitive) to make things clean
Lithuanian švarus, valyti
- švarusnot dirty
- valyti(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- švarinti(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
Malay bersih
- bersihnot dirty
Māori takakau, pokekore
- takakaupure, especially morally or religiously
- pokekorepure, especially morally or religiously
- mānot dirty
- horoi(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- whakapai(transitive) to tidy up
Norwegian gjøre rent
- gjøre rent(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
Persian پاک, تمیز
- پاک (pâk)not dirty
- تمیز (tamiz)not dirty
- تمیز کردن (tamiz kardan)(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
Polish przyzwoity, czysty
- przyzwoitypure, especially morally or religiously
- czystynot dirty
- czyścić(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- oczyszczać(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- oczyścić(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- sprzątać(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
Portuguese limpo, puro
- limpoin an unmarked condition
- puropure, especially morally or religiously
- imaculadopure, especially morally or religiously
- limposmooth, exact, and performed well
- limponot dirty
- asseadonot dirty
- limponot having used mind-altering or mood-changing substances
- limpezaremoval of dirt
- limpadaremoval of dirt
- limpar(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- arrumar(transitive) to tidy up
- limpar(intransitive) to make things clean
Punjabi ਸਾਫ਼, سُتْھرا
- ਸਾਫ਼ (sāf)not dirty
- سُتْھرا (suthrā)not dirty
- صاف (ṣāf)not dirty
- صاف سُتْھرا (ṣāf suthrā)not dirty
Romanian pur, curat
- purpure, especially morally or religiously
- curatnot dirty
- curăța(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- șterge(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
Russian чи́стый, чи́стый
- чи́стый (čístyj)in an unmarked condition
- чи́стый (čístyj)pure, especially morally or religiously
- чи́стый (čístyj)without restrictions or penalties
- чи́стый (čístyj)not in possession of weapons or contraband such as drugs
- чи́стый (čístyj)smooth, exact, and performed well
- ро́вный (róvnyj)smooth, exact, and performed well
- чи́стый (čístyj)not dirty
- чи́стить (čístitʹ)(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- почи́стить (počístitʹ)(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- вы́чистить (výčistitʹ)(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- очища́ть (očiščátʹ)(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- очи́стить (očístitʹ)(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- убира́ть (ubirátʹ)(transitive) to tidy up
- убра́ть (ubrátʹ)(transitive) to tidy up
- чи́стить (čístitʹ)(transitive) to tidy up
- почи́стить (počístitʹ)(transitive) to tidy up
- на́чисто (náčisto)fully and completely
Scottish Gaelic glan, glan
- glannot dirty
- glan(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- glan(transitive) to tidy up
- glan(intransitive) to make things clean
Slovak čistý, čistiť
- čistýnot dirty
- čistiť(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
Spanish limpio, limpio
- limpiopure, especially morally or religiously
- limpionot dirty
- limpionot having used mind-altering or mood-changing substances
- limpiofree of immorality or criminality
- limpiar(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- arreglar(transitive) to tidy up
Swahili nadhifu, safi
- nadhifunot dirty
- safinot dirty
- -safisha(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
Swedish ren, ren
- renpure, especially morally or religiously
- rennot dirty
- rennot having used mind-altering or mood-changing substances
- rengöra(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- göra ren(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- städa(transitive) to tidy up
Tagalog malinis, linisin
- malinisnot dirty
- linisin(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- linisan(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- linisin(transitive) to tidy up
- ayusin(transitive) to tidy up
- maglinis(intransitive) to make things clean
Tamil சுத்தம், சுத்தமாக்கு
- சுத்தம் (cuttam)not dirty
- சுத்தமாக்கு (cuttamākku)(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
Thai สะอาด, ล้าง
- สะอาด (sà-àat)not dirty
- ล้าง (láang)(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- เช็ด (chét)(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- เก็บกวาด (gèp-gwàat)(transitive) to tidy up
- ทำความสะอาด (tam-kwaam-sà-àat)(intransitive) to make things clean
Turkish temiz, arı
- temiznot dirty
- arınot dirty
- arınnot dirty
- temizlemek(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
Ukrainian чи́стий, чи́стити
- чи́стий (čýstyj)not dirty
- чи́стити (čýstyty)(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- почи́стити (počýstyty)(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
Urdu صاف
- صاف (sāf)not dirty
Vietnamese sạch sẽ, sạch
- sạch sẽnot dirty
- sạchnot dirty
- lau(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- làm sạch(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- dọn dẹp(transitive) to tidy up
Welsh glân, glanhau
- glânnot dirty
- glanhau(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
Yiddish ריין, פּוצן
- ריין (reyn)not dirty
- פּוצן (putsn)(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- רייניקן (reynikn)(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
Rhymes & wordplay
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Cite this entry
clean. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clean
“clean.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clean. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “clean,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clean.
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