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clean
adjective as in not dirty; uncluttered
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blank, bright, clear, elegant, fresh, graceful, hygienic, immaculate, neat, orderly, pure, simple, spotless, squeaky clean, tidy, unblemished, washed
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delicate, dirtless, faultless, flawless, neat as a button, neat as a pin, sanitary, snowy, spick-and-span, taintless, unpolluted, unsmudged, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untarnished, well-kept
adjective as in sterile
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antiseptic, clarified, decontaminated, disinfected, purified, sanitary, sterilized
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unadulterated, uncontaminated, uninfected, unpolluted, unsullied
adjective as in chaste, virtuous
adjective as in precise, sharp
adjective as in complete, thorough
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verb as in to free of dirt and clutter
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bathe, brush, cleanse, clear up, disinfect, dredge, dust, mop, pick, pick up, rinse, scrape, scrub, soak, spruce up, sweep, vacuum, wash, wipe
Strong matches
bath, blot, cauterize, clarify, deodorize, deterge, edulcorate, erase, expunge, expurgate, flush, hackle, launder, lave, neaten, polish, purge, purify, rake, rasp, refine, sanitize, scald, scour, shampoo, soap, sponge, sterilize, swab, whisk, winnow
Weak matches
absterge, clear the decks, depurate, do up, elutriate, rout out, shake out, straighten up, tidy up
Example Sentences
The dentist shares the upscale Alhambra shopping center with Sephora and Sprouts Farmers Market, serving patients who might have had to trek to a medical office building in years past to get their teeth cleaned.
Will the watersheds that sustain us be clean and healthy?
And plenty of people outside the executive branch — particularly health care providers, mental health professionals, and social workers — will have to clean up the messes the president's directives are creating.
This is what Democrats do: We come in and clean up the messes made by our Republican predecessors.
Sodium cyanide, which is used in industry including for metal cleaning, is a also a toxic substance and poisonous for living organisms as it disrupts cell function and leads to oxygen starvation.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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