1
as in tidied (up)
to make a place neat and orderly by removing extraneous stuff
you're expected to clean up after you use the workroom
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2
as in censored
to remove objectionable parts from
cleaned up the rock star's interview before publishing it in the newspaper
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as in eradicated
to destroy all traces of
hurriedly cleaned up the mess that they had created in the kitchen
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cleaned (up)
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Coley Sohn and Linda Bagley-Sohn, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, say the city censored their protest against the city painting over its rainbow crosswalks.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
9 May 2026 -
Nonfiction books were censored at schools at more than double the past rate in the 2024-2025 school year, according to a new report by PEN America.—
BrieAnna J. Frank,
USA Today,
7 May 2026
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Pluckebaum said, using a term that means a community has essentially eradicated homelessness.—
Ishani Desai,
Sacbee.com,
7 May 2026
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In a few isolated locations, when aggressive actions were taken shortly after the mussels were detected, fledgling populations were eradicated.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
3 May 2026
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The combination of an overloaded schedule, international travel and shortened preparation time increasingly produces mediocre matchups in premium television windows.—
Bobby Burack OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
14 May 2026
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Certain past emergency cases, such as the COVID pandemic, were exceptions in which those wait times were drastically shortened.—
Adam Kovac,
Scientific American,
12 May 2026
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Lehmann considers the contested history of Anne Boleyn, the outlandish accusations against her, and the ways in which her image has been erased and changed over time.—
Fiction Non Fiction,
Literary Hub,
14 May 2026
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Finlayson said that students at the school found his LinkedIn reply before the post's author erased the thread, leading to outcry.—
Beth Bailey,
FOXNews.com,
14 May 2026
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Slavery was abolished around 160 years ago and civil rights became law about 60 years ago.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
14 May 2026
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In 2018, France abolished its wealth tax, and Spain added one of its own a bit later.—
Alex Ledsom,
Forbes.com,
10 May 2026
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His latest adapts Peter Heller’s 2012 novel set in the aftermath of a pandemic that’s nearly wiped out humanity.—
Tracy Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2026
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That means around 90 percent of the company’s value has been wiped out.—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
14 May 2026
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After Spirit Airlines ceased operations, in the middle of the night on May 2nd, a series of canary-yellow airplanes sat on the tarmac at Newark Airport, arranged neatly like children’s toys at day’s end.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
9 May 2026
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According to the victim, the suspect arranged the meeting and provided Davenport's address as the exchange location before stealing the laptop and running away.—
Abby Dodge,
CBS News,
9 May 2026
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Last month, at least seven vessels picked up Iranian crude at this location and headed to ports in Shandong, according to data provided to CNN by Kpler.—
Simone McCarthy,
CNN Money,
12 May 2026
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To take their minds off the situation back home, the family picked up paddles — and then never put them down.—
Greg Rosenstein,
NBC news,
12 May 2026
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“Cleaned (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cleaned%20%28up%29. Accessed 15 May. 2026.
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