Meaning

4 senses
  1. (transitive)To clean, especially to tidy by removing the contents.

    Clean out your purse and at least get rid of all the trash you're hauling around.

  2. (slang, transitive)To take all money or possessions from.

    The divorce cleaned him out.

    deprive completely of money or goods

  3. (dated, slang, transitive)To hit or strike (someone); to beat up.

  4. To defeat, to cause to wash out.

Examples

131 sentences
  1. How did you get Tom to help you clean out the garage?

    Як тобі вдалося умовити Тома допомогти прибратися в гаражі?

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  2. Tom has been meaning to clean out his badly cluttered garage for years.

    Том роками збирався навести порядок у своєму захаращеному гаражі.

    deTom will seine zugemüllte Garage schon seit Jahren ausmisten.

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  3. Help me clean out the garage.

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  4. Tom is cleaning out the garage.

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  5. We've finished cleaning out the garage.

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Translations

2 languages

Forms

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

irregular

Present simpleLesson

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

Past simpleLesson

all personscleaned out

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill clean out

Phrasal verbs

4 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Derivedcleanout

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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