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From Middle English clene, clane, from Old English clǣne (“clean, pure”), from Proto-West Germanic *klainī (“shining, fine, splendid, tender”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *glēy- (“gleaming”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to gleam”). Cognate with Scots clean (“absolute, pure, clear, empty”) and clene, clane (“clean”), North Frisian klien (“small”), West Frisian klien (“small”), klean (“clean”), Dutch klein (“small”), Low German kleen (“small”), German klein (“small”), Swedish klen (“weak, feeble, delicate”), Icelandic klénn (“poor, feeble, petty, snug, puny, cheesy, lame”).
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kliːn/, [kʰl̥iːn]
- (General American) enPR: klēn, IPA(key): /klin/, [kʰl̥ĩn]
- (Ireland, dated) enPR: klān, IPA(key): /kleːn/, [kʰl̥eːn]
- Rhymes: -iːn
clean (comparative cleaner, superlative cleanest)
- (physical) Free of dirt or impurities.
- 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.
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], →OCLC:
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.
- In an unmarked condition.
Put a clean sheet of paper into the printer.
- (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.
- Antonym: dirty
- Empty.
- Synonyms: vacant, void; see also Thesaurus:empty
The cargo hold is clean.
Mister, I want to see a clean dinner plate or there'll be no dessert for you.
- (of metal) Having relatively few impurities.
clean steel
- Not dirty, filthy, or soiled.
- (behavioral) Free of immorality or criminality.
- Pure, especially morally or religiously.
Our kids can watch this movie because it is clean.
1833 (date written), Alfred Tennyson, “St. Simeon Stylites”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 63:
Ah! let me knot be fool'd, sweet saints. I trust / That I am whole, and clean, and meet for Heaven.
1914, Parliamentary Debates, volume 168, New Zealand, page 195:
I 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.
- Not having used drugs or alcohol.
I've been clean this time for eight months.
2014 October 27, Taylor Swift, Imogen Heap, “Clean (Taylor's Version)”, in 1989 (Taylor's Version)[2], performed by Taylor Swift, published 2023 October 27:
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
- (of criminal, driving, etc. records) Without restrictions or penalties, or someone having such a record.
Unlike you, I’ve never caused any accidents — my record is still clean!
- (informal) Not in possession of weapons or contraband such as drugs.
I'm clean, officer. You can go ahead and search me if you want.
- (informal) Devoid of profanity.
- Pure, especially morally or religiously.
- Smooth, exact, and performed well.
I'll need a sharper knife to make clean cuts.
a clean leap over a fence
- (obsolete) Total; utter. (still in "clean sweep")
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, […], →OCLC:
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.
- (informal) Cool or neat.
Wow, dude, those are some clean shoes ya got there!
- (health, of a person) Free of infection or disease.
2023 October 14, HarryBlank, “Face Time”, in SCP Foundation[3], archived from the original on 23 May 2024:
"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."
- (health) Devoid of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
I want to make sure my fiancé is clean before we are married.
- That does not damage the environment.
clean energy
clean coal
2024 November 8, Luz Pena, “California's gas prices could have major increase with passing of new fuel standards”, in ABC7 News[4]:
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."
- Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects.
clean land
clean timber
- Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.
- Well-proportioned; shapely.
clean limbs
- (climbing, of a route) Ascended without falling.
- (professional wrestling slang) Of a victory or performance: without any submission holds, disqualification, interference, etc.
- (not dirty): Thesaurus:clean
- a new broom sweeps clean
- bioclean
- certificate of clean criminal record
- cleanaholic
- clean as a bean
- clean as a hound's tooth
- clean as a new penny
- clean as a new pin
- clean as a whistle
- clean bill of health
- clean bomb
- clean bowl
- clean break
- clean bulk
- clean chit
- clean coal
- clean code
- clean coder
- clean copy
- clean eating
- clean electricity
- clean feed
- clean fill
- clean float
- cleanfluencer
- clean freak
- clean girl
- clean-handed
- clean hands
- clean house
- cleanish
- clean language
- clean-limbed
- clean link
- clean-living
- cleanly
- clean meat
- clean money
- cleanness
- clean potato
- clean power
- clean price
- clean room
- cleanroom
- clean-shaved
- cleanshaven
- clean sheet
- clean shell
- cleanskin
- clean skin
- clean slate
- cleantech
- clean teen
- cleanth
- clean-timbered
- clean URL
- come clean
- eye-clean
- hyperclean
- keep one's nose clean
- lick clean
- make a clean breast
- new brooms sweep clean
- nonclean
- overclean
- show a clean pair of heels
- squeaky clean
- superclean, super-clean
- ultraclean
- unclean
- wipe the slate clean
not dirty
- Adyghe: къабзэ (qabzɛ)
- Afrikaans: skoon
- Albanian: pastër (sq)
- American Sign Language: OpenB@BasePalm-PalmDown-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp OpenB@Finger-PalmDown-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp
- Amharic: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: نَظِيف (naẓīf)
- Egyptian Arabic: نضيف (naḍīf)
- Aragonese: limpio, neto
- Armenian: մաքուր (hy) (makʻur)
- Aromanian: curat, albu (roa-rup), spilat, chischin, spastru, pãstrit
- Assamese: চফা (sopha), চাফা (sapha), চাফ চিকুণ (saph sikun), চিকুণ (sikun), পৰিষ্কাৰ (poriskar)
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܕܸܟ݂ܝܵܐ m (diḳya), ܬܲܡܸܙ (tāmiz)
- Asturian: llimpiu
- Azerbaijani: təmiz (az), arı (az)
- Bashkir: таҙа (taźa)
- Basque: garbi
- Belarusian: чы́сты (čýsty)
- Bengali: পরিষ্কার (bn) (poriśkar), সাফ (bn) (śaph)
- Breton: dilastez
- Bulgarian: чист (bg) (čist)
- Burmese: သန့် (my) (san.)
- Catalan: net (ca)
- Chechen: цӏена (cʼena)
- Cherokee: ᎤᏓᏅᎦᎸᏓ (udanvgalvda)
- Chickasaw: chifata, chofata
- Chinese:
- Chuvash: таса (tas̬a)
- Cornish: glan
- Czech: čistý (cs) m
- Danish: ren (da)
- Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: schoon (nl), proper (nl)
- Egyptian: (wꜥb)
- Esperanto: pura
- Estonian: puhas (et)
- Faroese: reinur
- Finnish: puhdas (fi)
- French: propre (fr), net (fr)
- Friulian: net
- Galician: limpo (gl)
- Georgian: სუფთა (supta)
- German: sauber (de), rein (de)
- Gothic: 𐌷𐌻𐌿𐍄𐍂𐍃 (hlutrs)
- Greek: καθαρός (el) (katharós)
- Ancient: καθαρός (katharós)
- Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
- Hausa: tsari
- Hawaiian: maʻemaʻe
- Hebrew: נָקִי (he) (nakí)
- Hindi: साफ़ (sāf), स्वच्छ (hi) (svacch)
- Hungarian: tiszta (hu)
- Icelandic: hreinn (is)
- Ido: neta (io)
- Igbo: ocha, ucha
- Indonesian: bersih (id)
- Ingush: цӏена (cʼena)
- Interlingua: munde, nette
- Irish: glan (ga)
- Italian: pulito (it)
- Japanese: 清い (ja) (きよい, kiyoi), 清潔な (ja) (せいけつな, seiketsu na), 綺麗な (ja) (きれいな, kirei na)
- Javanese: resik (jv)
- Kannada: please add this translation if you can
- Kashmiri: صاف (sāf)
- Kazakh: таза (taza), саф (saf)
- Khmer: ស្អាត (km) (sʼaat)
- Korean: 깨끗하다 (ko) (kkaekkeuthada), 맑다 (ko) (makda)
- Kumyk: таза (taza)
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: аруу (ky) (aruu), пакиз (pakiz), таза (ky) (taza)
- Ladin: nët
- Lao: ສະອາດ (sa ʼāt)
- Latin: pūrus, mundus, tersus
- Latvian: tīrs (lv)
- Lithuanian: švarus
- Lombard: nett
- Luxembourgish: propper
- Macedonian: чист (čist)
- Maguindanao: matilak
- Malay: bersih (ms)
- Malayalam: വൃത്തിയായ (vr̥ttiyāya), ശുദ്ധ (ml) (śuddha)
- Maltese: nadif (mt)
- Maori: mā (mi)
- Marathi: स्वच्छ (svaccha), साफ (sāph)
- Meänkieli: puhas
- Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
- Mongolian: цэвэр (mn) (cever)
- Nepali: सफा (saphā)
- Norman: net (Jersey), naette (Guernsey), propre m or f
- Occitan: net (oc)
- Odia: please add this translation if you can
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: чистъ (čistŭ)
- Old English: clǣne
- Ossetian: сыгъдӕг (syǧdæg)
- Ottoman Turkish: آری (arı), تمیز (temiz), صفی (safi), پاك (pak)
- Pashto: پاک (ps) (pâk)
- Persian: پاک (fa) (pâk), تمیز (fa) (tamiz)
- Plautdietsch: rein
- Polabian: caistĕ m
- Polish: czysty (pl) m
- Portuguese: limpo (pt), asseado (pt)
- Punjabi:
- Gurmukhi: ਸਾਫ਼ (pa) (sāf)
- Shahmukhi: سُتْھرا m (suthrā), صاف (ṣāf), صاف سُتْھرا m (ṣāf suthrā)
- Quechua: llimphu
- Romanian: curat (ro)
- Russian: чи́стый (ru) (čístyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: glan
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Shor: арығ (arığ)
- Sicilian: pulitu (scn)
- Sindhi: صاف (sāf)
- Sinhalese: පිරිසුදු (pirisudu)
- Slovak: čistý
- Slovene: čist (sl)
- Somali: nadiif
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: cysty
- Southern Altai: ару (aru)
- Spanish: limpio (es), límpido (es)
- Swahili: nadhifu, safi (sw)
- Swedish: ren (sv)
- Sylheti: ꠌꠣꠚꠣ (safá)
- Tagalog: malinis
- Tajik: пок (pok), тоза (tg) (toza), покиза (pokiza), соф (sof), тамиз (tamiz)
- Tamil: சுத்தம் (ta) (cuttam)
- Tatar: таза (taza), саф (tt) (saf), чиста (çista)
- Thai: สะอาด (th) (sà-àat)
- Tibetan: གཙང་མ (gtsang ma)
- Turkish: temiz (tr), arı (tr), arın (tr)
- Turkmen: tämiz
- Tuvan: арыг (arıg)
- Ukrainian: чи́стий (čýstyj)
- Urdu: صاف (sāf)
- Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
- Uzbek: toza (uz), pok (uz), pokiza (uz)
- Venetan: néto, net
- Vietnamese: sạch sẽ (vi), sạch (vi)
- Volapük: klinik (vo)
- Welsh: glân (cy)
- White Hmong: huv
- Yakut: ыраас (ıraas)
- Yiddish: ריין (reyn)
in an unmarked condition
pure, especially morally or religiously
- Afrikaans: rein
- Bulgarian: чист (bg) (čist)
- Catalan: pur (ca)
- Chinese:
- Dutch: leeg (nl)
- Finnish: puhdas (fi), viaton (fi)
- French: pur (fr) m
- Galician: puro (gl) m
- German: rein (de)
- Greek: αγνός (el) (agnós), αμόλυντος (el) (amólyntos)
- Hebrew: טָהוֹר (he) (tahór)
- Ido: pura (io)
- Irish: glan (ga)
- Kashmiri: پَوِتھٕر (pavithụr), پاکھ (pākh)
- Maori: takakau, pokekore
- Mongolian: цэвэр (mn) (cever), ариун (mn) (ariun)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: чистъ (čistŭ)
- Ottoman Turkish: صفی (safi), پاك (pak)
- Plautdietsch: rein
- Polish: przyzwoity (pl) m
- Portuguese: puro (pt), imaculado (pt)
- Romanian: pur (ro) m
- Russian: чи́стый (ru) (čístyj)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: cysty
- Spanish: limpio (es)
- Swedish: ren (sv)
Translations to be checked
- Albanian: (please verify) pastër (sq)
- Breton: (please verify) naet (br), (please verify) prop, (please verify) kempenn (br)
- Esperanto: (please verify) pura
- French: (please verify) propre (fr)
- Romanian: (please verify) curat (ro)
- Spanish: (please verify) limpio (es)
- Telugu: (please verify) శుభ్రం (te) (śubhraṁ)
- Welsh: (please verify) glân (cy)
- Woiwurrung: (please verify) barmberring
clean (plural cleans)
- Removal of dirt.
This place needs a clean.
- (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.
2014, T/James Reagan, Leeds House, Amazon Digital Services LLC, →ISBN, page 314:
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.
2016, Jay Shields, “Tech Fest 2016”, in Fraser Mutch, editor, Elite Online Mag, number 78, page 155:
Vocalist Kaan is impeccable in his performance engaging with the crowd and soulfully executing both searing screams and hauntingly melodic cleans.
2023 April 17, Jake Richardson, “10 Best Clean Singers in Metalcore”, in Loudwire[5], archived from the original on 17 August 2024:
The 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."
clean (third-person singular simple present cleans, present participle cleaning, simple past and past participle cleaned)
- (transitive) To remove dirt from a place or object.
Can you clean the windows today?
- (transitive) To tidy up, make a place neat.
Clean your room right now!
- (transitive, climbing) To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.
- (intransitive) To make things clean in general.
She just likes to clean. That’s why I married her.
- (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
- To remove guts and/or scales of a butchered animal.
- See also Thesaurus:make clean
(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or object
- Albanian: pastroj (sq)
- Arabic: نَظَّفَ (naẓẓafa)
- Armenian: մաքրել (hy) (makʻrel), սրբել (hy) (srbel)
- Aromanian: cur, pãstrescu
- Assamese: চফা কৰা (sopha kora), চাফা কৰা (sapha kora), চাফ চিকুণ কৰা (saph sikun kora), চিকুণ কৰা (sikun kora), পৰিষ্কাৰ কৰা (poriskar kora)
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܕܵܟ݂ܹܐ (daḳe), ܬܲܡܸܙ (tāmiz)
- Asturian: llimpiar
- Azerbaijani: təmizləmək (az), arıtmaq
- Belarusian: чы́сціць impf (čýscicʹ), пачы́сціць pf (pačýscicʹ)
- Bengali: পরিষ্কার করা (poriśkar kora), সাফ করা (śaph kora)
- Breton: dilouzañ (br), disaotrañ (br)
- Bulgarian: чи́стя (bg) impf (čístja)
- Catalan: netejar (ca)
- Cherokee: ᎦᏅᎦᎵᎭ (ganvgaliha)
- Chickasaw: chifalli, chofalli, chofatli
- Chinese:
- Cornish: glanhe
- Czech: čistit (cs) impf, vyčistit (cs) pf, očistit (cs) pf
- Danish: rense
- Dutch: schoonmaken (nl), kuisen (nl), poetsen (nl), reinigen (nl), wassen (nl)
- Esperanto: poluri
- Estonian: puhastama
- Finnish: puhdistaa (fi), siivota (fi), siistiä (fi), putsata (fi)
- French: nettoyer (fr), poutzer (fr) (Switzerland)
- Friulian: netâ
- Galician: limpar (gl)
- Georgian: წმენდა (c̣menda), გასუფთავება (gasuptaveba)
- German: reinigen (de), säubern (de), putzen (de), abwischen (de)
- Alemannic German: abbuddse
- Gothic: 𐌷𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌾𐌰𐌽 (hrainjan)
- Greek: καθαρίζω (el) (katharízo)
- Guaraní: mopotĩ
- Haitian Creole: netwaye
- Hindi: साफ़ करना (sāf karnā)
- Hungarian: tisztít (hu), takarít (hu)
- Icelandic: þrífa, hreinsa (is)
- Ido: netigar (io)
- Irish: glan (ga)
- Italian: pulire (it), nettare (it)
- Japanese: 掃除する (ja) (そうじする, sōji suru), 清潔にする (ja) (seiketsu ni suru)
- Kabuverdianu: linpa
- Kashmiri: چھَلُن (chalun), صاف کَرُن (sāf karun)
- Kazakh: тазалау (tazalau)
- Khmer: សំអាត (km) (somāt), ជំរះ (jŭmrēah), ដុសលាង (dohlīəng)
- Korean: 청소하다 (ko) (cheongsohada)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: پاک کردن (pak kirdin)
- Ladin: puzné
- Lao: please add this translation if you can
- Latin: purgo, mundo, tergeo
- Latvian: tīrīt impf, (clean the exterior of something) notīrīt pf, (clean the interior of something) iztīrīt pf, attīrīt pf, satīrīt pf
- Lithuanian: valyti, švarinti
- Lombard: nettà (lmo), netà (lmo)
- Luxembourgish: botzen, rengegen, propper maachen
- Macedonian: чисти impf (čisti)
- Malayalam: വൃത്തിയാക്കുക (ml) (vr̥ttiyākkuka)
- Maltese: naddaf
- Maori: horoi
- Marathi: साफ करणे (sāph karṇe)
- Mbyá Guaraní: ky'a'o
- Mongolian: цэвэрлэх (mn) (ceverlex)
- Neapolitan: pulizzà
- Nepali: सफा गर्नु (saphā garnu)
- Norman: netti (Jersey)
- Norwegian: gjøre (no) rent
- Occitan: netejar (oc)
- Odia: please add this translation if you can
- Old English: clǣnsian
- Ottoman Turkish: تمیزلهمك (temizlemek)
- Persian: تمیز کردن (fa) (tamiz kardan)
- Polish: czyścić (pl) impf, oczyszczać (pl) impf, oczyścić (pl) pf, sprzątać (pl)
- Portuguese: limpar (pt)
- Quechua: mayllay, pichay
- Romanian: curăța (ro), șterge (ro)
- Russian: чи́стить (ru) impf (čístitʹ), почи́стить (ru) pf (počístitʹ), вы́чистить (ru) pf (výčistitʹ), очища́ть (ru) impf (očiščátʹ), очи́стить (ru) pf (očístitʹ)
- Scots: dicht
- Scottish Gaelic: glan
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sicilian: puliri (scn)
- Sindhi: صاف ڪرڻ
- Skolt Sami: čiistâd
- Slovak: čistiť impf
- Slovene: čistiti (sl) impf
- Spanish: limpiar (es)
- Swahili: -safisha (sw)
- Swedish: rengöra (sv), göra ren
- Tagalog: linisin, linisan
- Tamil: சுத்தமாக்கு (cuttamākku)
- Telugu: శుభ్రం చేయు (śubhraṁ cēyu)
- Thai: ล้าง (th) (láang), เช็ด (th) (chét)
- Tibetan: གཙང་མ་བཟོས (gtsang ma bzos)
- Turkish: temizlemek (tr)
- Tuvan: чуур (çuur)
- Ukrainian: чи́стити impf (čýstyty), почи́стити pf (počýstyty)
- Venetan: netare (vec), netar
- Vietnamese: lau (vi), làm sạch
- Welsh: glanhau (cy)
- White Hmong: ntxuav
- Yiddish: פּוצן (putsn), רייניקן (reynikn)
- Zhuang: please add this translation if you can
(transitive) to tidy up
- Armenian: մաքրել (hy) (makʻrel)
- Azerbaijani: yığışdırmaq, səliqəyə salmaq
- Bengali: সাফ করা (śaph kora)
- Bulgarian: разтребвам (bg) (raztrebvam)
- Catalan: netejar (ca), arreglar (ca), ordenar (ca)
- Chickasaw: chifalli, chofalli, chofatli
- Chinese:
- Czech: uklidit (cs)
- Dutch: opruimen (nl)
- Finnish: siivota (fi)
- French: ranger (fr)
- Friulian: netâ
- German: aufräumen (de), putzen (de)
- Greek: συμμαζεύω (el) (symmazévo)
- Hebrew: מנקה m (menakeh)
- Hindi: साफ़ करना (sāf karnā)
- Irish: glan (ga)
- Italian: ordinare (it)
- Japanese: 整理する (ja) (せいりする, sēri suru), 整頓する (ja) (せいとんする, sēton suru)
- Kashmiri: صاف کَرُن (sāf karun)
- Korean: 청소하다 (ko) (cheongsohada), 소제하다 (ko) (sojehada)
- Ladin: rumé su, puzné
- Latin: ordinō
- Latvian: kārtot (lv) impf, sakārtot pf
- Maori: whakapai
- Marathi: साफ करणे (sāph karṇe)
- Mongolian: цэвэрлэх (mn) (ceverlex), цэгцлэх (mn) (cegclex), эмхлэх (mn) (emxlex)
- Portuguese: arrumar (pt)
- Russian: убира́ть (ru) impf (ubirátʹ), убра́ть (ru) pf (ubrátʹ), чи́стить (ru) impf (čístitʹ), почи́стить (ru) pf (počístitʹ)
- Scots: dicht
- Scottish Gaelic: glan
- Slovene: čistiti (sl)
- Spanish: arreglar (es)
- Swedish: städa (sv)
- Tagalog: linisin, ayusin (tl)
- Thai: เก็บกวาด (th) (gèp-gwàat)
- Vietnamese: dọn dẹp (vi)
(transitive) to remove equipment from climbing route
(intransitive) to make things clean
- Armenian: մաքրել (hy) (makʻrel)
- Bulgarian: почиствам (bg) (počistvam)
- Czech: uklízet (cs)
- Dutch: poetsen (nl), schoonmaken (nl)
- Finnish: puhdistaa (fi), siivota (fi)
- French: nettoyer (fr)
- German: reinigen (de), säubern (de), putzen (de)
- Icelandic: þrífa
- Irish: glan (ga)
- Japanese: きれいにする (ja) (きれいにする, kirei ni suru)
- Latvian: tīrīt
- Luxembourgish: rengegen
- Marathi: सफाई करणे (saphāī karṇe), साफसफाई करणे (sāphasphāī karṇe)
- Norman: netti (Jersey)
- Portuguese: limpar (pt)
- Scots: dicht
- Scottish Gaelic: glan
- Tagalog: maglinis
- Thai: ทำความสะอาด (th) (tam-kwaam-sà-àat)
(intransitive) to brush lightly in front of a curling rock
Translations to be checked
- Breton: (please verify) naetaat (br), (please verify) kempenn (br)
- Esperanto: (please verify) purigi
- French: (please verify) nettoyer (fr)
- Hebrew: (please verify) לנקות (lenaqot)
- Indonesian: (please verify) membersihkan (id)
- Italian: (please verify) pulire (it)
- Japanese: (please verify) きれいにする (ja) (kirei ni suru)
- Korean: (please verify) 씻다 (ko) (ssitda)
- Swedish: (please verify) tvätta (sv), (please verify) städa (sv)
clean (comparative cleaner, superlative cleanest)
- Fully and completely.
He was stabbed clean through.
You must be clean mad.
1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
So, 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.
1951 October, William B. Stocks, “A Few Miles from Huddersfield”, in Railway Magazine, page 701:
A feat sometimes achieved by outstanding local athletes is to throw a cricket ball clean over the top [of the viaduct].
1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.
clean (neuter clean, plural and definite singular attributive clean)
- drugfree, not having used recreational drugs
Borrowed from English clean. Doublet of klein.
clean (strong nominative masculine singular cleaner, comparative cleaner, superlative am cleansten)
- (colloquial) clean, drugfree
1984 March 26, “99 Luftballons und das Chaos der Gefühle”, in Der Spiegel[6], number 13:
Nenas Image ist so clean, daß ein paar Zeitschriften nun nach dunklen Punkten suchen und sie erfinden, weil nichts zu finden ist.
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Comparative forms of clean
Superlative forms of clean
clean m (genitive singular clean, plural cleanyn)
- cradle (oscillating bed for a baby)
Ta dooinney ny ghaa leaystey clean nagh vel bentyn da hene.
- There’s a man or two rocking the cradle of another man’s child.
- cot
- cage (of birds)
- pannier
Borrowed from Bulgarian клян (kljan), from Proto-Slavic *klěnь.
clean m (plural cleni)