VERB
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make oneself clean, presentable or neat
Clean up before you go to the party -
dispose of
settle the bills -
make a big profit; often in a short period of time
The investor really cleaned up when the stock market went up -
put (things or places) in order
Tidy up your room!
How To Use clean up In A Sentence
- Chin put on his strict sifu face and began barking orders: Clean up this room! American Chinatown
- The pieces should be sturdy, worm-free and consider just how will you clean up the mess if you send a slop of beef gravy down that gorgeous burr walnut façade?
- During a room clean up exercise, a notepad I used in England was found.
- Doubt he tried to clean up there afterwards - not with all that ticker tape on the floor. The Sun
- To reclaim your disk memory, you need to clean up these unnecessary and unwanted files.
- Help me clean up before Dad gets home or he'll have a conniption.
- It's also much more expensive to clean up and much more damaging to the proprietor seen as they usually cannot use a room I've just vacated - not until the fumigators have finished anyway.
- He came to believe that working people, poor people, put down and stepped upon, had to organize if they were going to clean up the slums, fight the corruption that exploited them, and get a handhold on the first rung of the ladder up and out. Bill Moyers: Saul Alinsky, Who?
- Wildlife official are celebrating the sighting of a beaver in the Detroit River for the first time in at least 75 years, signaling that efforts to clean up the waterway are paying off.
- We do ask our visitors to clean up after their dogs, especially in the more frequented areas of the estate.
