How to pronounce “clean”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• Free of dirt, filth, or impurities (extraneous matter); not dirty, filthy, or soiled.
• Free of contamination, (unwanted) germs, infection, or disease.
• Free of imperfections, blemishes, or defects.
• Free of immorality or criminality.
• 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).
• (aerodynamics) Allowing an uninterrupted flow over surfaces, without protrusions such as racks or landing gear.
• (aviation) Having the undercarriage and flaps in the up position.
• Well-proportioned; shapely.
• (informal) Cool or neat.
• Utter, complete, total; pure; free from restraint.
• [Noun]
• Removal of dirt.
• (weightlifting) The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders.
• (in the plural, metal music) Clear vocals, contrasted with death growls and screams.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To remove dirt from a place or object.
• (transitive) To tidy up, make a place neat.
• (transitive, climbing) To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.
• (intransitive) To make things clean in general.
• (transitive, computing) To remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.).
• (intransitive, curling) 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.
• (manga fandom slang) To purge a raw of any blemishes caused by the scanning process such as brown tinting and poor color contrast.
• (video games) Synonym of clean up.
• (transitive) To remove guts and/or scales of a butchered animal.
• [Adverb]
• Fully and completely.

Practice Nearby Words

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