Meaning

3 senses

  1. (intransitive, literally)To clean the interior of a house.

    clean and tidy up the house

  2. (figuratively, intransitive)To reform a workplace, organization, etc. by removing undesirable personnel or procedures.

  3. (intransitive, slang)To win overwhelmingly.

Examples

197 sentences

  1. Please help me clean the house.

    Допоможи мені прибрати в домі, будь ласка.

    ruПомоги мне убрать дом, пожалуйста.

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  2. Let's clean the house.

    Давайте приберемо в будинку.

    ruДавай уберёмся в доме.

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  3. Tom helped Mary clean the house.

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  4. I'm trying to clean the house.

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  5. We need to clean the house.

    ruНам нужно убраться в доме.

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Forms

cleans house, cleaning house, cleaned house, cleaned house
Base formclean house · to clean house
3rd person singularcleans house
Present participlecleaning house
Past simplecleaned house
Past participlecleaned house

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyclean house
he, she, itcleans house

Past simpleLesson

all personscleaned house

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave cleaned house
he, she, ithas cleaned house

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill clean house

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words
Relatedclean sweepclean updead wood

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
cleanA1cleanerA2cleanlinesscleanlyC1
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