to make a lot of money
to make a place completely clean and tidy
to remove objects from a place in order to make it completely clean and tidy
to remove pollution from a place or an industrial process
to start behaving in a more suitable and sensible way
to stop bad, unfair, or criminal behaviour in a place or activity
to wash someone who is dirty
Come into the bathroom and I’ll get you cleaned up.
Cream crackers were the worst for cleaning up.
He really cleaned up on the stock market.
I cleaned myself up and got ready for dinner.
I hope they send him a bill for cleaning up the jet and for the delay.
If she fails to clean up the fiasco she could be moved from her post as early as Friday.
Is there the political will to clean up the banking system?
I’m going to clean up in here this afternoon.
Joe can clean up the mess.
We need a systematic plan for identifying and cleaning up waste sites.
We really ought to make a start on getting this place cleaned up.
a campaign to clean up the city’s streets
cleans up
cleaning up
cleaned up
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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