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Meaning of clean out in English

Table of contents
  1. Pronunciation
  2. Verb
    1. Definitions
  1. Pronunciation

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  1. Verb

    clean out

    Definitions

    1. empty completely

    Examples

    • « We cleaned out all the drawers »
  2. 2. force out

    Examples

    • « The new boss cleaned out the lazy workers »
  3. 3. deprive completely of money or goods

    Examples

    • « The robbers cleaned us out in a couple of hours »

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  • « Man, if I made one million dollars I would come in at six in the morning, sweep the stands, wash the uniforms, clean out the office, manage the team and play the games. »
    Duke Snider
  • « Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body. »
    Theodore Roosevelt

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