Definition of Clean

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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

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
Theodore Roosevelt

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, "A house guest," you're wrong because I have just described my kids.
Erma Bombeck

This shirt is dry clean only. Which means... it's dirty.
Mitch Hedberg

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

It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.
Mae West

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
John Wayne

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
George Burns

It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
George Burns

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
John Muir

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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