to empty a place of objects or goods, especially by stealing or buying them in large quantities
to make a place or container clean or tidy by removing objects that are not wanted and getting rid of any dirt or dust in it
to remove objects from a place or container in order to make it tidy
to use all of someone’s money
A cheer went up as the man in the hood was thrown clean out of the ring.
Government soldiers moved in and cleaned the village out.
I’ve cleaned out all the junk from the cellar.
The least he could do was clean out the fireplace and bring in a load of wood.
The rest was putting crude into Northern Europe and shipping clean out of the refineries.
The supermarkets were cleaned out by panicking shoppers.
There will be such a deal of singing that the ideas will be driven clean out of my head.
They spent the day cleaning out the garage.
This will clean me out. I’ll have to sell the house.
cleans out
cleaning out
cleaned out
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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