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CLEAN UP
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make oneself clean, presentable or neat
Example:
Clean up before you go to the party
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "clean up" is one way to...):
groom; neaten (care for one's external appearance)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
cleanup (the act of making something clean)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Put (things or places) in order
Example:
Tidy up your room!
Synonyms:
clean up; neaten; square away; straighten; straighten out; tidy; tidy up
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "clean up" is one way to...):
order (bring order to or into)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "clean up"):
make; make up (put in order or neaten)
clean; clean house; houseclean (clean and tidy up the house)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 3
Meaning:
Dispose of
Example:
settle the bills
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "clean up" is one way to...):
settle (dispose of; make a financial settlement)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 4
Meaning:
Make a big profit; often in a short period of time
Example:
The investor really cleaned up when the stock market went up
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "clean up" is one way to...):
profit; turn a profit (make a profit; gain money or materially)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
cleanup (a very large profit)
