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1. Meaning 1 · noun

   Removal of dirt.

   “This place needs a clean.”

2. Meaning 2 · noun

   The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders.

3. Meaning 3 · verb

   To remove dirt from a place or object.

   “Can you clean the windows today?”

4. Meaning 4 · verb

   To tidy up, make a place neat.

   “Clean your room right now!”

5. Meaning 5 · verb

   To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.

6. Meaning 6 · verb

   To make things clean in general.

   “She just likes to clean. That’s why I married her.”

7. Meaning 7 · verb

   To remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.).

8. Meaning 8 · verb

   To brush the ice lightly in front of a moving rock to remove any debris and ensure a correct line; less vigorous than a sweep.

9. Meaning 9 · verb

   To purge a raw of any blemishes caused by the scanning process such as brown tinting and poor color contrast.

10. Meaning 10 · verb

    To remove guts and/or scales of a butchered animal.

11. Meaning 11 · adjective

    (heading, physical) Free of dirt or impurities or protruberances.

12. Meaning 12 · adjective

    (heading, behavioural) Free of immorality or criminality.

13. Meaning 13 · adjective

    Smooth, exact, and performed well

    “I’ll need a sharper knife to make clean cuts.  a clean leap over a fence”

14. Meaning 14 · adjective

    Total; utter. (still in "clean sweep")

15. Meaning 15 · adjective

    Cool or neat.

    “Wow, Dude, those are some clean shoes ya got there!”

16. Meaning 16 · adjective

    (health) Being free of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).

    “I want to make sure my fiancé is clean before we are married.”

17. Meaning 17 · adjective

    That does not damage the environment.

    “clean energy;  clean coal”

18. Meaning 18 · adjective

    Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects.

    “clean land;  clean timber”

19. Meaning 19 · adjective

    Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.

20. Meaning 20 · adjective

    Well-proportioned; shapely.

    “clean limbs”

21. Meaning 21 · adjective

    (of a route) Ascended without falling.

22. Meaning 22 · adverb

    Fully and completely.

    “He was stabbed clean through.”

How this word is used

• Everyday “This place needs a clean.”
• Everyday “Can you clean the windows today?”
• General “Clean your room right now!”
• General “She just likes to clean. That’s why I married her.”
• General “I’ll need a sharper knife to make clean cuts.  a clean leap over a fence”
• General “Wow, Dude, those are some clean shoes ya got there!”
• General “I want to make sure my fiancé is clean before we are married.”
• General “clean energy;  clean coal”
• General “clean land;  clean timber”
• General “clean limbs”
• Everyday “He was stabbed clean through.”

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