Meaning

4 senses
  1. (intransitive)To make major reforms; to clean house.

    clean and tidy up the house

  2. (intransitive)To clean the interior and furnishings of a residence.

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

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

Origin

From house + clean.

From house + clean.

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Forms

housecleans, housecleaning, housecleaned, housecleaned

regular · Lesson

Base formhouseclean · to houseclean
3rd person singularhousecleans
Present participlehousecleaning
Past simplehousecleaned
Past participlehousecleaned

Tenses

houseclean · housecleaned · will houseclean · have housecleaned

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Present simpleLesson

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

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill houseclean

Past simpleLesson

all personshousecleaned

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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