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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

... most of the learned Poodles, and one remembers the instance of the Poodle of the Pont Neuf, who had the habit of dirtying the boots of the passers-by in order that his master—a shoe-black stationed half-way across the bridge—might enjoy the profit of cleaning them. In Belgium Poodles were systematically trained to smuggle valuable lace, which was wound round their shaven bodies and covered with a false skin. These dogs were schooled to a dislike of all men in uniform, and consequently on their journey between Mechlin and the ...

— Dogs and All About Them • Robert Leighton

... Mr Pickering, stoutly. 'The girl's the man's accomplice. It's quite easy to see the way they work. The girl comes and settles in the place so that everybody knows her. That's to lull suspicion. Then the man comes down for a visit and goes about cleaning up the neighbouring houses. You can't get away from the fact that this summer there have been half a dozen burglaries down here, and nobody has ...

— Uneasy Money • P.G. Wodehouse

... First, that an Act of Parliament be made with liberty for the undertakers to dig and trench, to cut down hedges and trees, or whatever is needful for ditching, draining and carrying off water, cleaning, enlarging and levelling the roads, with power to lay open or enclose lands; to encroach into lands; dig, raise, and level fences; plant and pull up hedges or trees (for the enlarging, widening, and ...

— An Essay Upon Projects • Daniel Defoe

... morning he rose, and on his way to the street exchanged with the servants cleaning the hotel stairs the first of the gloomy 'Guten Morgens' which usher in the day at Carlsbad. They cannot be so finally hopeless as they sound; they are probably expressive only of the popular despair of getting through with ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... throat were as rounded as usual. And if she had been ill, why was she left alone like this? She found a dressing-gown not her own, and went on a voyage of discovery. But the other rooms on her floor were dismantled and tenantless. The girls were gone and the servants were "cleaning" in a distant part of the College. She felt incapable of getting into bed again and waiting for some one to come, so she began dressing herself with trembling hands. Every detail increased the sense of strangeness. There were a number of strange ...

— The Invader - A Novel • Margaret L. Woods

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