| 单词 | clean up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto clean up a. transitive. to clean down: to clean from top to bottom, or by sweeping down. to clean up: to clean by taking up dirt or dust; to bring (a thing) up to a certain pitch or standard of cleanness; (also) to obtain by cleaning, to acquire as gain or profit; (also) to deal with effectively, to get the better of: see also sense 6 and clean n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > clean [verb (transitive)] yclense971 cleansea1000 farmOE fayc1220 fowc1350 absterse?a1425 mundify?a1425 muck1429 to cast clean1522 absterge1526 sprinkle1526 reconcile1535 net1536 clengec1540 neat?1575 snuff?1575 rinse1595 deterge1623 scavengea1644 scavenger1645 decrott1653 reform1675 clean1681 deterse1684 fluxa1763 to clean away, offa1839 to clean down1839 scavage1851 untaint1855 to sand and canvas1912 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > clean [verb (transitive)] > to certain standard to clean up1839 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > reclaim [verb (transitive)] > clear land redeeOE ridlOE grubc1374 stub1464 clot1483 shrub1553 clear1634 cure1719 stump1796 spade1819 slash1821 underbrush1824 to clean up1839 underbush1886 screef1913 society > occupation and work > industry > mining > mine [verb (intransitive)] > collect together valuable product to clean up1872 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > clean [verb (intransitive)] abstergify1612 exterge1657 clean1708 to clean up1886 1839 in J. S. Bassett Plantation Overseer (1925) 117 I have got my cotton land the half of it cleaned up. 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre III. viii. 183 My first aim will be..to clean down Moor-House from chamber to cellar. 1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It xxxvi. 255 The machinery was stopped and we ‘cleaned up’. That is to say, we..washed the mud patiently away till nothing was left but the long accumulating mass of quicksilver. 1886 W. Besant Children of Gibeon I. ii. i. 243 For thirty years..not even admitting a woman to clean up. to clean up 6. to clean up (see also sense 3a). Various colloquial and slang uses (chiefly U.S.): extracted from cleanv. a. transitive. To obtain, acquire as gain or profit. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (transitive)] > be profitable to > make in profit winc1175 gain1530 advantage1557 lucre1570 superlucrate1652 cleara1719 realize1720 net1765 to clean up1831 mop1861 gross1884 to cash in1904 1831 J. M. Peck Guide for Emigrants 147 He gave a friend one measured acre..and cleaned up thirty-five bushels and eight quarts [of wheat]. 1904 ‘O. Henry’ Cabbages & Kings vi. 104 So, this man I was speaking of cleaned up $288; and then he went away. 1906 C. de L. Canfield Diary of Forty-niner (1920) 51 I hope to clean up about ten thousand dollars. 1929 [see sense 6e]. 1931 L. A. G. Strong Garden xxx. 278 He had seen them clean up all three places in the Open Quarter; he had seen them, individually, win a score of races. 1960 20th Cent. Dec. 555 A concerted drive to ensure that this 25-year-old veteran cleans up another £16 million. b. transitive. To beat, vanquish; spec. in gambling, to make a large profit from, to take all the money from. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat shendc893 overwinOE overheaveOE mate?c1225 to say checkmatea1346 vanquishc1366 stightlea1375 outrayc1390 to put undera1393 forbeat1393 to shave (a person's) beardc1412 to put to (also at, unto) the (also one's) worsec1425 adawc1440 supprisec1440 to knock downc1450 to put to the worsta1475 waurc1475 convanquish1483 to put out1485 trima1529 convince1548 foil1548 whip1571 evict1596 superate1598 reduce1605 convict1607 defail1608 cast1610 banga1616 evince1620 worst1646 conquer1655 cuffa1657 trounce1657 to ride down1670 outdo1677 routa1704 lurcha1716 fling1790 bowl1793 lick1800 beat1801 mill1810 to row (someone) up Salt River1828 defeat1830 sack1830 skunk1832 whop1836 pip1838 throw1850 to clean out1858 take1864 wallop1865 to sock it to1877 whack1877 to clean up1888 to beat out1893 to see off1919 to lower the boom on1920 tonk1926 clobber1944 ace1950 to run into the ground1955 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > gamble at a game [verb (transitive)] > make large profit from skin1819 to clean up1888 1888 P. H. Sheridan Personal Mem. I. 47 The citizens..intended cleaning up the hostiles. 1932 J. Dos Passos 1919 43 They..shot some pool and Joe was pretty good and cleaned up the local boys. 1932 J. T. Farrell Young Lonigan vi. 279 He pretended that he had cleaned up all the tough guys on Fifty-eighth Street. 1949 N.Z. Free Lance 24 Aug. 10 You jokers cleaned us up at footie. c. transitive. To clear (a place, etc.) of harmful or immoral influences, elements, or persons; to rid (an area) of remaining pockets of enemy resistance. So cleaning-up n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > victory > [noun] > complete ridding of resistance mop-up1900 mopping-up1909 cleaning-up1916 clean-up1930 society > morality > virtue > purity > make pure [verb (transitive)] > remove immoral elements from to clean up1916 society > morality > virtue > purity > [noun] > moral purification > removing immoral elements cleaning-up1916 clean-up1930 society > armed hostility > victory > make victorious [verb (transitive)] > completely rid of resistance mop1901 to clean up1942 1916 W. A. Du Puy Uncle Sam 170 The cleaning up of the customs scandals in the port of New York was a most complicated task. 1925 C. E. Mulford Cottonwood Gulch 188 Our friend Dangerfield [the sheriff] will clean up this cursed country like a new broom. 1929 Times 15 Feb. More than 3,000 persons were arrested..by the Chicago police in a new effort to ‘clean up’ the city. 1930 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 May 359/1 American troops engaged in ‘cleaning up’ that distressful republic. 1942 P. Jordan Diary 29 Nov. (1943) 64 British parachutists have been dropped..at Depienne, where they are to clean up an airfield. 1943 Ann. Reg. 1942 128 After North Africa had been ‘cleaned up’, Parliament would be asked to approve a proposal that troops of the Union should serve outside Africa. 1967 G. Freeman Undergrowth of Lit. xi. 163 A political broadsheet published in California in 1966 calling for the banning of pornography had, as one of the arguments in favour of legally ‘cleaning up’ the state, [etc.]. d. transitive. To strip or empty the contents of. ΚΠ 1917 P. G. Wodehouse Uneasy Money xv. 169 Then the man comes down for a visit and goes about cleaning up the neighbouring houses. e. intransitive. To make a large profit. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (intransitive)] > make profit > make large profit to clean up1929 1929 D. Hammett Red Harvest xii. 119 You thought..you could clean up a little dough playing him?.. Did you clean up? 1941 B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? i. 11 I mean profit. That show must be cleaning up. 1947 J. Steinbeck Wayward Bus 36 It's the fastest-selling novelty I've ever handled. Little Wonder is cleaning up with it. < as lemmas |
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