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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
Strongest matches
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
“We want to clean up everything we possibly can as quickly as we can safely.”
But these RNAs then need to be cleaned and checked to make sure they meet the requirements of the pharmaceutical industry.
Yet through a remarkable process of musical transformation, Lang has become a purifier, his music increasingly having turned cool, clean, eloquent, elemental.
EPA—that cleaned up prior judicial messes and reined in the feds by stripping its claim to any “significant nexus” to navigable waters and tightening the definition of wetlands.
“Retribution is seductive like that, promising a clean line between good and evil. But it’s an illusion,” she eventually concludes in her book.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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