Antonyms for clean out
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : kleen |
| Phonetic Transcription : klin |
- adorn
- aid
- arrive
- assist
- beautify
- build
- building
- calm
- construct
- create
- creation
- cure
- decorate
- develop
- encourage
- expand
- fill
- fill up
- fix
- give
- grow
- heal
- help
- honor
- increase
- inspirit
- invigorate
- let go
- lose
- mend
- ornament
- placate
- praise
- protect
- put
- repair
- rush in
- sanctify
- soothe
- strengthen
- success
- surrender
- yield
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
- 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
- agitate
- bane
- bankrupt
- beggar
- botch
- break
- break with past
- bring down
- bring to ruin
- bust
- cause revolution
- churn up
- clean out
- clean up
- clear out
- crush
- decimate
- deface
- defeat
- defile
- demolish
- deplete
- deplore
- depredate
- desecrate
- despoil
- destroyer
- destruction
- devour
- dilapidate
- disfigure
- dispose of
- disturb
- do in
- downfall
- drain
- eliminate
- exhaust
- fleece
- get rid of
- impoverish
- injure
- lay waste
- liquidate
- maim
- make a clean sweep
- make a mess of
- mangle
- mar
- mix
- mutilate
- overthrow
- overturn
- overwhelm
- pauperize
- pillage
- purge
- rape
- ravish
- raze
- reduce
- remove
- reorganize
- rid
- sack
- shatter
- shock
- smash
- sort
- spoil
- spoilate
- stir up
- tidy up
- total
- turn upside down
- undoing
- use up
- wipe out
- wrack
- wreak havoc on
- wreck
- wrecker
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