n. a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then jerked overhead

v. remove shells or husks from; "clean grain before milling it"

v. remove while making clean; "Clean the spots off the rug"

v. be cleanable; "This stove cleans easily"

v. clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing; "clean up before you see your grandparents"; "clean your fingernails before dinner"

v. remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits; "Clean the turkey"

v. make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from; "Clean the stove!"; "The dentist cleaned my teeth"

v. remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely; "The boys cleaned the sandwich platters"; "The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm"

v. remove unwanted substances from

v. clean and tidy up the house; "She housecleans every week"

adv. "She played the piano accompaniment very clean"

adv. in conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating; "they played fairly"

adv. "hard left"

adv. "He was soundly defeated"; "We beat him good"; "She is sound asleep"; "I'm soaked through"

adj. free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits; "children with clean shining faces"; "clean white shirts"; "clean dishes"; "a spotlessly clean house"; "cats are clean animals"

adj. (of behavior or especially language) free from objectionable elements; fit for all observers; "good clean fun"; "a clean joke"

adj. ritually clean or pure

adj. thorough and without qualification; "a clean getaway"; "a clean sweep"; "a clean break"

adj. without difficulties or problems; "a clean test flight"

adj. free of restrictions or qualifications; "a clean bill of health"; "a clear winner"

adj. free of drugs; "after a long dependency on heroin she has been clean for 4 years"

adj. free of restrictions or qualifications; "a clean bill of health"; "a clear winner"

adj. not spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination; "a clean fuel"; "cleaner and more efficient engines"; "the tactical bomb is reasonably clean"

adj. morally pure; "led a clean life"

adj. "clean water"; "unpolluted streams"

adj. free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed; "he landed a clean left on his opponent's cheek"; "a clean throw"; "the neat exactness of the surgeon's knife"

adj. exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play; "a clean fight"; "a sporting solution of the disagreement"; "sportsmanlike conduct"

adj. (of a manuscript) having few alterations or corrections; "fair copy"; "a clean manuscript"

v. wash thoroughly; "surgeons must scrub prior to an operation"

v. move over something with pressure; "rub my hands"; "rub oil into her skin"

v. touch lightly and with affection, with brushing motions; "He stroked his long beard"

v. polish and make shiny; "buff the wooden floors"; "buff my shoes"

v. remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely; "The boys cleaned the sandwich platters"; "The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm"

v. make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from; "Clean the stove!"; "The dentist cleaned my teeth"

v. cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water; "Wash the towels, please!"

v. rub hard or scrub; "scour the counter tops"

v. scratch repeatedly; "The cat scraped at the armchair"

v. strip the skin off; "pare apples"

v. cut or remove with or as if with a plane; "The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood"

v. touch the surface of lightly; "His back shaved the counter in passing"

v. make free from bacteria

v. move over something with pressure; "rub my hands"; "rub oil into her skin"

v. touch lightly and with affection, with brushing motions; "He stroked his long beard"

v. polish and make shiny; "buff the wooden floors"; "buff my shoes"

v. remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely; "The boys cleaned the sandwich platters"; "The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm"

v. clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing; "clean up before you see your grandparents"; "clean your fingernails before dinner"

v. rub hard or scrub; "scour the counter tops"

v. scratch repeatedly; "The cat scraped at the armchair"

v. strip the skin off; "pare apples"

v. remove body hair with a razor

v. cut or remove with or as if with a plane; "The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood"

v. touch the surface of lightly; "His back shaved the counter in passing"

v. remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; "Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!"

v. move over something with pressure; "rub my hands"; "rub oil into her skin"

v. touch lightly and with affection, with brushing motions; "He stroked his long beard"

v. polish and make shiny; "buff the wooden floors"; "buff my shoes"

v. make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from; "Clean the stove!"; "The dentist cleaned my teeth"

v. clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing; "clean up before you see your grandparents"; "clean your fingernails before dinner"

v. wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten

v. rub hard or scrub; "scour the counter tops"

v. scratch repeatedly; "The cat scraped at the armchair"

v. strip the skin off; "pare apples"

v. remove body hair with a razor

v. cut or remove with or as if with a plane; "The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood"

v. touch the surface of lightly; "His back shaved the counter in passing"

v. bring order to or into; "Order these files"

adj. characterized by order

adj. of places; characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder; "even the barn was shipshape"; "a trim little sailboat"

adj. of persons

adj. marked by good order and cleanliness in appearance or habits; "a tidy person"; "a tidy house"; "a tidy mind"

adj. characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in manners and conduct; "the tete-a-tete was decorous in the extreme"

adj. thoroughly clean and free of or destructive to disease-causing organisms; "doctors in antiseptic green coats"; "the antiseptic effect of alcohol"; "it is said that marjoram has antiseptic qualities"

adj. free of extraneous elements of any kind; "pure air and water"; "pure gold"; "pure primary colors"; "the violin's pure and lovely song"; "pure tones"; "pure oxygen"

adj. free of extraneous elements of any kind; "pure air and water"; "pure gold"; "pure primary colors"; "the violin's pure and lovely song"; "pure tones"; "pure oxygen"

adj. morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse); "a holy woman innocent and chaste"

adj. "clean water"; "unpolluted streams"

adj. socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous; "from a decent family"; "a nice girl"

adj. according with custom or propriety; "her becoming modesty"; "comely behavior"; "it is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be constantly asking for money"; "a decent burial"; "seemly behavior"

adj. not offensive to sexual mores in conduct or appearance

adj. conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being; "wholesome attitude"; "wholesome appearance"; "wholesome food"

adj. free from dirt or stain: "pristine mountain snow"; "the unsullied splendor of eternal youth"- Oscar Wilde; "nor is there anything more virginal than the shimmer of young foliage"- L. P. Smith

adj. worthy of being honored; entitled to honor and respect; "an honorable man"; "led an honorable life"; "honorable service to his country"

adj. morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse); "a holy woman innocent and chaste"

adj. characterized by or proceeding from accepted standards of morality or justice; "the...prayer of a righteous man availeth much"- James 5:16

adj. morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse); "a holy woman innocent and chaste"

adj. free of restrictions or qualifications; "a clean bill of health"; "a clear winner"

adj. socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous; "from a decent family"; "a nice girl"

adj. according with custom or propriety; "her becoming modesty"; "comely behavior"; "it is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be constantly asking for money"; "a decent burial"; "seemly behavior"

adj. not offensive to sexual mores in conduct or appearance

adj. conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well-being; "wholesome attitude"; "wholesome appearance"; "wholesome food"

adv. in a rich manner; "he lives high"

adv. completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers; "an absolutely magnificent painting"; "a perfectly idiotic idea"; "you're perfectly right"; "utterly miserable"; "you can be dead sure of my innocence"; "was dead tired"; "dead right"

adv. to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly'); "he was wholly convinced"; "entirely satisfied with the meal"; "it was completely different from what we expected"; "was completely at fault"; "a totally new situation"; "the directions were all wrong"; "it was not altogether her fault"; "an altogether new approach"; "a whole new idea"

adv. "He had filled out the form completely"

adv. to the greatest degree or extent; completely or entirely; (`full' in this sense is used as a combining form); "fully grown"; "he didn't fully understand"; "knew full well"; "full-grown"; "full-fledged"

adj. thoroughly clean and free of or destructive to disease-causing organisms; "doctors in antiseptic green coats"; "the antiseptic effect of alcohol"; "it is said that marjoram has antiseptic qualities"

adj. ritually clean or pure

adj. marked by good order and cleanliness in appearance or habits; "a tidy person"; "a tidy house"; "a tidy mind"

adj. conforming to conventions of sexual behavior; "speech in this circle, if not always decent, never became lewd"- George Santayana

adj. free of extraneous elements of any kind; "pure air and water"; "pure gold"; "pure primary colors"; "the violin's pure and lovely song"; "pure tones"; "pure oxygen"

adj. free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits; "children with clean shining faces"; "clean white shirts"; "clean dishes"; "a spotlessly clean house"; "cats are clean animals"

adj. complete in extent or degree and in every particular; "a full game"; "a total eclipse"; "a total disaster"

adj. successfully completed or brought to an end; "his mission accomplished he took a vacation"; "the completed project"; "the joy of a realized ambition overcame him"

adj. completely given to or absorbed by; "became all attention"

adj. using all available resources; "all-out war"; "a full-scale campaign against nuclear power plants"

adj. covering the entire surface; "an allover pattern"; "got an allover tan"

adj. toward a full side; "a broadside attack"

adj. caught; "a completed forward pass"

adj. complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers; "absolute freedom"; "an absolute dimwit"; "a downright lie"; "out-and-out mayhem"; "an out-and-out lie"; "a rank outsider"; "many right-down vices"; "got the job through sheer persistence"; "sheer stupidity"

adj. given substance or detail; completed; "did not spring full-clad from his imagination"; "a plan fleshed out with statistics and details"

adj. complete in extent or degree and in every particular; "a full game"; "a total eclipse"; "a total disaster"

adj. having or displaying all the characteristics necessary for completeness; "a full-blown financial crisis"

adj. complete in every respect; "a full-dress debate"; "a full-dress investigation"

adj. occupying an entire page in a book or paper; "a full-page ad"

adj. thorough; "had a good workout"; "gave the house a good cleaning"

adj. constituting a complete and independent unit in and of itself; "the university is like a self-contained city with shops and all amenities"

adj. thorough; "a sound thrashing"

adj. "an unbroken (complete) set of an encyclopedia"

adj. including all components without exception; being one unit or constituting the full amount or extent or duration; complete; "gave his whole attention"; "a whole wardrobe for the tropics"; "the whole hog"; "a whole week"; "the baby cried the whole trip home"; "a whole loaf of bread"

adj. with unconditional and enthusiastic devotion; "heart-whole friendship"; "gave wholehearted support to her candidacy"; "wholehearted commitment"; "demonstrated his whole-souled allegiance"

adj. perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities; "a complete gentleman"; "consummate happiness"; "a consummate performance"

adj. understood perfectly; "had his algebra problems down"

adj. free from error; "an errorless baseball game"

adj. (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct; "a precise image"; "a precise measurement"

adj. without fault or error; "faultless logic"; "speaks impeccable French"; "timing and technique were immaculate"; "an immaculate record"

adj. without a flaw; "a flawless gemstone"

adj. conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence; embodying an ideal

adj. exalted to an ideal perfection or excellence

adj. excellent and delightful in all respects; "an idyllic spot for a picnic"

adj. as if new; "in mint condition"

adj. being precise with regard to a prescribed or specified criterion; "his guess was on the nose"; "the prediction for snow was right on the button"

adj. capable of becoming or being made perfect

adj. more than perfect; "he spoke with pluperfect precision"

adj. not modified or restricted by reservations; "a categorical denial"; "a flat refusal"

adj. without reservation or exception

adj. suggestive of gold; "a golden voice"

adj. resembling or reminiscent of silver; "a soft silvern voice"; "singing in her silvery tones"

adj. abstaining from unlawful sexual intercourse

adj. narrowly and conventionally moral

adj. acting on the mind or feelings or character: "a moral victory"; "psychological support"

adj. used of cultures of microorganisms; not contaminated by or completely free of the presence of other organisms; "an axenic culture"

adj. (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims; "efforts to obtain a clean bass in orchestral recordings"; "clear laughter like a waterfall"; "clear reds and blues"; "a light lilting voice like a silver bell"

adj. free from impurities; having a high or specified degree of purity; "gold 21 carats fine"

adj. as found in nature in the elemental form; "native copper"

adj. not mixed with extraneous elements; "plain water"; "sheer wine"; "not an unmixed blessing"

adj. made pure

adj. not mixed with impurities; "unadulterated maple syrup"

adj. free from admixture; "unalloyed metal"; "unalloyed pleasure"

adj. (of language) not having its purity or excellence debased; "uncorrupted English"; "learn to speak pure English undefiled"- Van Wyck Brooks

adj. being dexterous in the use of more than one set of muscle movements; "she was usually good with her hands and well coordinated"- Mary McCarthy

adj. skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands; "a deft waiter"; "deft fingers massaged her face"; "dexterous of hand and inventive of mind"

adj. skillful with the hands; "handy with an axe"

adj. having nimble fingers literally or figuratively; especially for stealing or picking pockets; "a light-fingered burglar who can crack the combination of a bank vault"- Harry Hansen; "the light-fingered thoughtfulness...of the most civilized playwright of the era"- Time

adj. of laws and regulations; designed to protect trade and commerce from unfair business practices

adj. of a person; just and impartial; not prejudiced

adj. just and honest

adj. easily deciphered

v. make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!"

v. make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake"

v. make foul

v. dirty with mud

v. corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals"

v. make or leave a mark on; "the scouts marked the trail"; "ash marked the believers' foreheads"

adj. soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; "dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves"

adj. limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud; "the beggar's bedraggled clothes"; "scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts"

adj. disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room"

adj. thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"

adj. dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck; "muddy boots"; "a mucky stable"

adj. foul and run-down and repulsive; "a flyblown bar on the edge of town"; "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town"; "squalid living conditions"; "sordid shantytowns"

adj. contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen

adj. (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency; "dirty words"; "a dirty old man"; "dirty books and movies"; "boys telling dirty jokes"; "has a dirty mouth"

adj. characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes"

adj. ritually unclean or impure; "and the swine...is unclean to you"-Leviticus 11:3

adj. not perfect; defective or inadequate; "had only an imperfect understanding of his responsibilities"; "imperfect mortals"; "drainage here is imperfect"

adj. spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination; "the air near the foundry was always dirty"; "a dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout"

adj. deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong

adj. not adroit; "a maladroit movement of his hand caused the car to swerve"; "a maladroit translation"; "maladroit propaganda"

adv. in an unfair manner; "they dealt with him unfairly"; "their accusations hit below the belt"