Clean Out

Definition: Clean Out

Clean Out

Verb

1. Empty completely; "We cleaned out all the drawers".

2. Force out: "The new boss cleaned out the lazy workers".

3. Deprive completely of money or goods: "The robbers cleaned us out in a couple of hours".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Clean Out

Ejection

Empty; drain to the dregs; sweep off; clear off, clear out, clear away; suck, draw off; clean out, make a clean sweep of, clear decks, purge.

Crosswords: Clean Out

It takes a woman all powdered and pink to joylously clean out the drain in the sink! (Hello, Dolly!; writing credit: Ernest Lehman; Michael Stewart)

It was guaranteed the treatment would fry the fairy clean out of him, but all it did was make him go bonkers whenever he heard an electric guitar. (Velvet Goldmine; writing credit: James Lyons; Todd Haynes)

It's so clean out here! (Annie Hall; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman)

Brain contemplatin, clean out the register (Murder Murder (Remix) *; performing artist: Eminem)

Baby, ev'rything is alright, uptight, clean out of sight. (Uptight (Everything's alright); performing artist: Stevie Wonder)

She says baby ev'rything is alright, uptight, clean out of sight. (Uptight (Everything's alright); performing artist: Stevie Wonder)

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Books

• Clean Out the Ashes: Walking Through Forgiveness (reference)

• Clean Out the Fridge, Fred! (reference)

• The great Nixon turn-around; America's new foreign policy in the post-liberal era (how a Cold Warrior climbed clean out of his skin); essays and articles with an introductory statement (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The dentist or periodontist will clean out the infected area under the gum, then reshape or replace the damaged tooth-supporting tissues. (references)

The doctor may prescribe one or more enemas or a drink that helps clean out the bowel, like magnesium citrate, mineral oil, or polyethylene glycol. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "clean out": clean out trap ♦ To clean out. Additional references.

Albanian

spastroj (clear, clear away, purge), boshatis (deplenish, empty, evacuate, void). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نظف (char, clean, clear, clear away, do, mop, pan, purge, purify, rub, sanitize, scavenge, scour, scrub, swab, wash out), ‏إستهلك (clean, consume, expend, go), ‏إستنفد (clean, consume, deplete, exhaust). (various references)

Bulgarian 

почиствам (clean, clean up, overcast, rake, refurbish, rumble, whip, wipe clean), изчиствам (cleanse, clear out, get off, take out). (various references)

Chinese 

淘 (cleanse, eliminate, to clean out, to wash). (various references)

Czech

vyprázdnit (become empty, deplete, empty, evacuate, exhaust, soak), vyklidit (clear out, dismantle, empty, move out, vacate), vybrakovat (cannibalize), vyèistit (brush, clean, do, scrub). (various references)

Danish

vandlaas med renseprop (air trap, clean out trap, drain trap, gulley trap, running trap, siphon trap, strench trap), vandlaas (air trap, clean out trap, drain trap, gulley trap, running trap, siphon trap, strench trap). (various references)

Dutch

stankafsluiter (air trap, clean out trap, drain trap, gulley trap, running trap, siphon trap, strench trap). (various references)

Finnish

ruokota (clean, dress). (various references)

French

ratisser, nettoyer (clean, clear, clear away), laver, fauché, faire vider. (various references)

German

sprengen (blast, blasting, blow, blow up, break up, burst, dynamite, explode, force open, mine, spray, sprinkle, to blast, to detonate, water), ausräumen (clear out, clear up, dispel, empty out, move out, purge, rake, settle, smooth out), ausputzen (adorn, clear, decorate, ornament, unblock), auspumpen (drain, exhaust, poop, pump, pump out, to exhaust), ausplündern (pillage, plunder, prey on, raid), ausnehmen (clean, dress, eviscerate, except, exclude, exempt, fleece, pull, raid, remove, shake down, take out), ausmisten (muck out, tidy out), abwaschen (clean down, rub down, sponge down, swill, to give a wash, wash, wash down, wash off, wash up, wipe out). (various references)

Greek 

μαδώ (moult, pluck, strip). (various references)

Hebrew 

לרושש (destroy, impoverish, ruin). (various references)

Hungarian

rendbe hoz (adjust, array, readjust, refit, regulate, repair, set right, to accommodate, to adjust, to do up, to fix, to furbish, to plaster up, to put right, to put sg straight, to recondition, to refit, to regulate, to set right, to set sg to rights, to set to rights, to tidy, to tidy up, to trim), megkopaszt (deplume, displume, excise, milk, to excise, to pluck, to skin, to strip), kitakarít (clean, clear out, tidy up, to clean, to clean up, to clear up, to defecate, to do out, to make up, to tidy, to tidy up). (various references)

Indonesian

menggaruk (rake, rob, round up people), melibas (defeat completely, wipe out). (various references)

Italian

ripulire (clean, clean again, clean oneself up, clean up, ransack, rifle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

掃き出す (to clean out, to release, to sweep out). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

はき� す (to clean out, to release, to spit out, to sweep out, to vomit). (various references)

Manx

rooisht (exposed, naked, nude, stripped, unclothed), glenney magh (clear away, discharge, scavenging). (various references)

Pig Latin

eanclay outay

Portuguese

esvaziar (bail, bleed, buzz, clear, crush, deflate, deplenish, deplete, dump, empty, gut, pour out, rifle, scoop, turn out, unpack), despejar (dump, exhaust, pour, scatter, shed, shower). (various references)

Russian 

вычищать (weed away, weed out), опорожнять (clear, clear out, deplenish, empty, evacuate, void). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pokrasti (rob, steal), počistiti (sweep away, upsweep). (various references)

Spanish

limpiarse (clean oneself, preen, take on, wash), limpiar (black, char, clean, clean down, clean up, cleanse, clear, clear out, debug, delete, do, dredge, dust, efface, Frank, knock off, live down, make clean, manicure, mop, mop up, police, polish, purge, rub up, scavenge, scour, scrape, shine, swab, swob, tidy, tidy out, tidy up, turn out, wash, wipe, wipe down, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up). (various references)

Swedish

upprensning (cleanup), upprensa, städa i, rensa upp, pungslå (bleed), mocka (Mocha, muck, suede), göra pank. (various references)

Turkish

temizlemek (bump off, clarify, clean, clean up, cleanse, clear, clear up, decontaminate, depurate, do, do out, erase, excise, expurgate, get rid of, give smth. a sweep, gut, houseclean, mop up, purge, purify, rid, rub out, scavenge, swab down, sweep, swob down, tidy out, wipe away, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up), soymak (bare, bark, burglarize, burgle, decorticate, denude, deplume, despoil, disrobe, divest, flay, fleece, heist, hold up, housebreak, knock off, pare, Peel, pluck, plunder, pull off, rifle, rip off, Rob, roll, sack, shave, shear, skin, stick up, strip, unclothe, undress, unrobe), silip süpürmek (dispatch, gobble, gobble up, mop up, polish off, punish, put away, sweep), parasız bırakmak, para sızdırmak (blackmail, bleed, bleed smb., gouge, shake down, squeeze, tap, touch), boşaltmak (bleed, clean, clear, clear out, close out, debus, deplenish, deplete, discharge, disgorge, dismantle, drain, drain away, drain off, draw off, drop off, dump, ejaculate, empty, evacuate, excrete, exhaust, let off, pour, pour from, pour out of, quit, strip, teem, tip, tip out, tip over, turn out, unlade, unload, unpack, vacate, void), ayıklamak (comb out, grub up, pick, pick over, pluck, select, sort, sort out, weed out, weed up, winnow). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lactone, noctule.

-2 letters: cantle, cental, coteau, cuneal, eluant, etalon, lacune, lancet, launce, locate, lucent, lunate, octane, tolane, toucan, unlace.

-3 letters: acute, alone, anole, atone, canoe, canto, cento, centu, clean, cleat, clone, clout, conte, cotan, count, culet, eclat, enact, lance, laten, leant, lento, lunet, lutea, notal, oaten, ocean, octal, octan, ounce, talon, tolan, tonal.

+1 letter: consulate, countable, gluconate, inoculate, nucleator.

+2 letters: cantaloupe, conceptual, consulates, contextual, conventual, documental, glauconite, gluconates, inoculated, inoculates, inosculate, novaculite, nucleation, nucleators, outbalance, peculation, ulceration.

+3 letters: accountable, antinucleon, cantaloupes, confabulate, conjectural, conjugately, construable, conventuals, counterplan, counterplay, counterplea, countervail, crenulation, cupellation, cutaneously, educational, ejaculation, elucidation, enucleation, equinoctial, exculpation, glauconites, granulocyte, inoculative, inosculated, inosculates, involucrate, novaculites, nucleations, outbalanced, outbalances, peculations, radiolucent, reductional, reinoculate, reluctation, sansculotte, speculation, tenaciously, ulcerations, unallocated, uncataloged, uncountable, untouchable.