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The correct spelling is clean.
How to pronounce clean
/kleːn/
nounIPA: /kleːn/
Say it like: Clee-n
The correct spelling is clean. Removal of dirt. For example: "This place needs a clean."
Usage Examples
“This place needs a clean.”
“Can you clean the windows today?”
“Clean your room right now!”
Meanings
noun
- 1.Removal of dirt.
- 2.The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders.
verb
- 1.To remove dirt from a place or object.
- 2.To tidy up, make a place neat.
- 3.To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.
- 4.To make things clean in general.
- 5.To remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.).
adjective
- 1.(heading, physical) Free of dirt or impurities or protruberances.
- 2.(heading, behavioural) Free of immorality or criminality.
- 3.Smooth, exact, and performed well
- 4.Total; utter. (still in "clean sweep")
- 5.Cool or neat.
adverb
- 1.Fully and completely.
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