| 单词 | to clean down |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto clean down 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. < as lemmas |
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