Clean /(klēn)/
Clean
a.
- Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.
- Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects; as, clean land; clean timber.
- Free from awkwardness; not bungling; adroit; dexterous; as, a clean trick; a clean leap over a fence.
- Free from errors and vulgarisms; as, a clean style.
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Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.
When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of corners of thy field.
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Free from moral defilement; sinless; pure.
Create in me a clean heart, O God.
That I am whole, and clean, and meet for Heaven
- Free from ceremonial defilement. (Script.)
- Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in tone; healthy.
- Well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs.
Phrases & Compounds
- A clean bill of health
- a certificate from the proper authority that a ship is free from infection.
- Clean breach
- See under Breach, n., 4.
- To make a clean breast
- See under Breast.
Clean
adv.
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Without limitation or remainder; quite; perfectly; wholly; entirely.
All the people were passed clean over Jordan.
- Without miscarriage; not bunglingly; dexterously. [Obs.]
Clean
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Cleaned; p. pr. & vb. n. Cleaning
- To render clean; to free from whatever is foul, offensive, or extraneous; to purify; to cleanse.
Phrases & Compounds
- To clean out
- to exhaust; to empty; to get away from (one) all his money.