Meaning

5 senses
  1. (transitive)To make an area or a thing clean; to pick up a mess; to tidy.

    Clean up your room.

    putzen

    убира́тьсяubirátʹsja, прибиратьсяpribiratʹsja

    прибира́тиprybyráty, прибра́тиprybráty

    make oneself clean, presentable or neat

  2. (colloquial, idiomatic, intransitive)To become clean, handsome, smart in appearance, e.g. for a special occasion, especially when it is out of character to be seen as such.

    He sure cleans up nice.

  3. (idiomatic, transitive)To make something less corrupt or unseemly.

    clean up one's act

  4. (idiomatic, intransitive)To make a large profit; to win by a large margin, or to win a large amount, especially in gambling. Also clean house.

    Man, he sure cleaned up last night at the blackjack table.

    The investors cleaned up when the stock hit the roof last year.

  5. To intervene in a fight between two players at low health and easily kill both of them or the winner.

Examples

615 sentences
  1. I'm tired of cleaning up after you.

    Я стомився прибирати за тобою.

    ruЯ устал за тобой убирать.

    deEs reicht mir langsam, immer nach dir aufräumen zu müssen.

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  2. She ordered him to clean up his room.

    Вона наказала йому прибрати в своїй кімнаті.

    ruОна сказала ему, чтобы он убрал в своей комнате.

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  3. It'll take forever to clean up this mess.

    Розібратися в цьому безладі займе цілу вічність.

    deEs wird ewig dauern, dieses Chaos zu bereinigen.

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  4. Could you help me clean up a bit before you leave?

    Можеш допомогти мені трохи поприбрати перед тим, як я піду?

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  5. Clean up the kitchen.

    Прибери на кухні.

    ruВымой кухню.

    deMach die Küche sauber.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to make an area or a thing clean:
Русский
By meaning 1
to make an area or a thing clean:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to make an area or a thing clean:

Forms

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

irregular

Present simpleLesson

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

Past simpleLesson

all personscleaned up

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill clean up

Phrasal verbs

4 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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