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Since then, the bank has cleaned up its act, but not without a hefty price.

We busted into houses with shotguns, cleaned up decapitated bodies, harangued local authorities.

Now, the slender laneways are all but deserted—the buildings cleaned up and sold off as funky flats for the upper-middle class.

The captain replied, “Well, he was a mess, so the first thing we did was get him to the infirmary to get him cleaned up.”

Tom Sykes on how the royal cleaned up his image (hint: ditching the booze) and turned up the charm.

They have recovered their exhaustion; have cleaned up, and look full of themselves, twice the size in fact.

They bought up the entire crop and cleaned up a million dollars profit each within a few years.

In the meantime, have the other stuff cleaned up and lacquered; it keeps rust off, and saves the servants much trouble.

It might run on this way for months, and you hoping to have the collection cleaned up and get the bank opened soon thereafter.

The Boche had only left it about three weeks, and it had not been "cleaned up."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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