Meaning

4 senses
  1. (intransitive)To clean the interior and furnishings of a residence.

    clean and tidy up the house

  2. (intransitive)To make major reforms; to clean house.

  3. (transitive)To clean the interior and residential furnishings of.

  4. (transitive)To rid of undesirable personnel and procedures.

Origin

From house + clean.

From house + clean.

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Forms

housecleans, housecleaning, housecleaned, housecleaned
Base formhouseclean · to houseclean
3rd person singularhousecleans
Present participlehousecleaning
Past simplehousecleaned
Past participlehousecleaned

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyhouseclean
he, she, ithousecleans

Past simpleLesson

all personshousecleaned

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave housecleaned
he, she, ithas housecleaned

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill houseclean

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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