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present participle of clean (up) 1 as in cleaning house to make a place neat and orderly by removing extraneous stuff you're expected to clean up after you use the workroom -
cleaning house -
setting straight -
tidying (up) -
picking up -
ordering -
arranging -
turning out -
housekeeping -
straightening (up) -
policing (up) -
housecleaning -
cleaning (off) -
neatening -
uncluttering -
messing (up) -
cluttering -
disarranging 2 as in censoring to remove objectionable parts from cleaned up the rock star's interview before publishing it in the newspaper -
censoring -
shortening -
editing -
laundering -
expurgating -
deleting -
bowdlerizing -
reviewing -
red-penciling -
cutting (out) -
blacking out -
x-ing (out) -
purging -
x'ing (out) -
cleansing -
purifying -
examining -
suppressing -
screening -
blue-penciling -
abbreviating -
expunging -
gutting -
repressing -
bleeping -
blipping -
silencing -
excising -
condemning -
scrutinizing -
denouncing -
censuring -
authorizing -
sanctioning -
approving 3 as in eradicating to destroy all traces of hurriedly cleaned up the mess that they had created in the kitchen -
eradicating -
erasing -
wiping out -
blotting out -
blacking out -
abolishing -
rubbing out -
stamping (out) -
sweeping (away) -
destroying -
rooting (out) -
snuffing (out) -
tearing down -
extirpating -
expunging -
effacing -
obliterating -
exterminating -
annihilating -
shattering -
canceling -
liquidating -
killing off -
blowing up -
demolishing -
cancelling -
killing -
mowing (down) -
devastating -
dismantling -
ravaging -
throwing out -
consuming -
ruining -
discarding -
decimating -
flattening -
wrecking -
totaling -
wasting -
razing -
smashing -
dissolving -
dashing -
splintering -
finishing -
dynamiting -
fragmenting -
atomizing -
pulverizing -
blasting -
powdering -
ejecting -
devouring -
zapping -
dooming -
expelling -
totalling -
terminating -
excising -
ditching -
jettisoning -
ousting -
cutting -
protecting -
saving -
manufacturing -
preserving -
building -
creating -
shaping -
conserving -
constructing -
forming -
making -
forging -
framing -
rebuilding -
repairing -
fixing -
restoring -
reconstructing -
renewing -
fabricating -
reconditioning -
fashioning -
revamping -
renovating -
patching -
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