2syllables
cleaning
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Definitions ofcleaning
1verb
- To remove dirt from a place or object.
Example: "Can you clean the windows today?"
- To tidy up, make a place neat.
Example: "Clean your room right now!"
- To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.
- To make things clean in general.
Example: "She just likes to clean. That’s why I married her."
- To remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.).
- To brush the ice lightly in front of a moving rock to remove any debris and ensure a correct line; less vigorous than a sweep.
- To purge a raw of any blemishes caused by the scanning process such as brown tinting and poor color contrast.
- To remove guts and/or scales of a butchered animal.
1noun
- (gerund of clean) The process of making something clean.
- The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc.
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