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SPRING-CLEAN
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they spring-clean ... he / she / it spring-cleans
Past simple: spring-cleaned
Past participle: spring-cleaned
-ing form: spring-cleaning
Sense 1
Meaning:
Thoroughly clean the entire house, often done only once a year
Example:
she started spring-cleaning on April 1
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "spring-clean" is one way to...):
clean; clean house; houseclean (clean and tidy up the house)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
spring-cleaning (the activity of cleaning a house thoroughly at the end of winter)
