Antonyms for clean out


Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : kleen
Phonetic Transcription : klin


Definition of clean out

Origin :
  • Old English clæne "free from dirt or filth; pure, chaste, innocent; open, in the open," of beasts, "ritually safe to eat," from West Germanic *klainoz "clear, pure" (cf. Old Saxon kleni "dainty, delicate," Old Frisian klene "small," Old High German kleini "delicate, fine, small," German klein "small;" English preserves the original Germanic sense), from PIE root *gel- "bright, gleaming" (cf. Greek glene "eyeball," Old Irish gel "bright").
  • "Largely replaced by clear, pure in the higher senses" [Weekley], but as a verb (mid-15c.) it has largely usurped what once belonged to cleanse. Meaning "whole, entire" is from c.1300 (clean sweep in the figurative sense is from 1821). Sense of "innocent" is from c.1300; that of "not lewd" is from 1867; that of "not carrying anything forbidden" is from 1938; that of "free of drug addiction" is from 1950s. To come clean "confess" is from 1919, American English.
  • As in ruination : noun ruin
  • As in ruin : verb devastate, destroy
  • As in shake up : verb upset, unsettle
  • As in pauperize : verb ruin
  • As in clear out : verb empty something
Example sentences :
  • Why, she used to clean out a man's pockets as soon as look at him.
  • Extract from : « Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille » by Emile Zola
  • Walter didn't 'clean out' the safe, and of course he didn't touch the silver.
  • Extract from : « Nobody » by Louis Joseph Vance
  • Curse me, Colonel Sullivan, it's clean out of patience you put me!
  • Extract from : « The Wild Geese » by Stanley John Weyman
  • That I won't, I promise you; put that clean out of your head to begin with.
  • Extract from : « The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) » by Charles James Lever
  • And the boys will like as not just run you clean out of the country.
  • Extract from : « The House in the Water » by Charles G. D. Roberts
  • All we had to do was rebuild the intake dam and clean out the ditch.
  • Extract from : « Bloom of Cactus » by Robert Ames Bennet
  • I thank my stars I am clean out of that one-horse town Albany!
  • Extract from : « The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2) » by Harry Furniss
  • They use their hands instead of shovels, and clean out the oven with their breasts.
  • Extract from : « Russian Fairy Tales » by W. R. S. Ralston
  • As clean out of his mind as the cleverest Christian could go.
  • Extract from : « A Pair of Blue Eyes » by Thomas Hardy
  • It will smart and foam, but will clean out and kill most of the germs that are there.
  • Extract from : « A Handbook of Health » by Woods Hutchinson

Synonyms for clean out

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