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Definition of Clean
Clean

Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.

Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects; as, clean land; clean timber.

Free from awkwardness; not bungling; adroit; dexterous; as, aclean trick; a clean leap over a fence.

Free from errors and vulgarisms; as, a clean style.

Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.

Free from moral defilement; sinless; pure.

Free from ceremonial defilement.

Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in tone; healthy.

Well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs.

Without limitation or remainder; quite; perfectly; wholly; entirely.

Without miscarriage; not bunglingly; dexterously.

To render clean; to free from whatever is foul, offensive, or extraneous; to purify; to cleanse.

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Clean Quotations

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya Angelou

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
George Bernard Shaw

And we have abundant natural energy resources in the country. We haven't been taking adequate advantage of them, and we can burn coal in a clean way; we could improve the grid.
John W. Snow

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Clean Translations

clean in Afrikaans is suiwer, skoonmaak, skoon
clean in Dutch is puur, schoon, zindelijk, rein
clean in Finnish is puhdas
clean in French is nettoyent, astiquer, ramoner, nettoyez, pur
clean in German is sauber, sauber, steril/sauber, abputzen
clean in Italian is forbire, lustrare, lindo
clean in Latin is tersus, mundus, tergeo tergo tersi tersum
clean in Norwegian is ren
clean in Portuguese is limpar, limpo
clean in Spanish is enjugar, mondar, limpio


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