CLEANED (UP) Synonyms: 140 Similar and Opposite Words

cleaned (up)

verb

past tense of clean (up)

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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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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Acting on flimsy pretenses, Bianco arranged in February for the seizure of hundreds of thousands of Proposition 50 ballots, questioning the integrity of the election months after the fact.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2026
It's arranged into an L-shape around a terrace, creating a home designed to embrace indoor/outdoor living.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 8 Nov. 2026

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The film came out highly censored in 1971, and only recently had its most salacious bits recovered from the archives and restored to their fleshy glory.

— Bethy Squires, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2026
But on the television broadcast that aired on Saturday, Antonia’s T-shirt had been censored, appearing to be all white.

— Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of censored

Verb

His presence in government should be eradicated like a malignant tumor.

— Emily Feng, NPR, 6 Nov. 2026
The islands lost 9% to 20% of the total Key Deer population, but the New World screwworm was declared eradicated there on March 23, 2017, less than a year after it was discovered.

— Eric Michel, The Conversation, 6 Nov. 2026

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Nationally, Democrats picked up seven Senate seats Tuesday, gaining firm control of the upper chamber and making major inroads in Republican strongholds such as Texas.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2026
Authorities said the cargo was picked up as planned by a truck identified as a food transport company.

— Suzanne Phan, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of picked up

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Those exclusive windows, sharply shortened during the pandemic, have gradually lengthened again, according to Octavio Alzola, programming and marketing director at arthouse cinema chain Cines Renoir.

— Emiliano de Pablos, Variety, 2 Nov. 2026
Commercial Dungeness crab season has been delayed or shortened in the past few years in California.

— Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of shortened

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Burns joined the twenty-seventh annual New Yorker Festival to discuss his work with Michael Luo, an executive editor at the magazine, and the importance of chronicling history at a time when more and more is being written over and erased.

— The New Yorker, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2026
Playing its first game since firing coach Mike Norvell after six-plus seasons, Florida State erased a 17-7 second-quarter deficit by putting up two TDs in the final six minutes of the half.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 Nov. 2026

Definition of erased

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He was sentenced to four years’ probation and initially ordered to stay away from his ex-wife and two children for six years, which was later reduced to two years, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

— Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2026
The Arkansas Supreme Court reopened the murder case and ordered fresh testing of the DNA found at the crime scene in 2024.

— Zac Ntim, Deadline, 8 Nov. 2026

Definition of ordered

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The state’s electorate reaffirmed its support a decade ago, voting down a ballot initiative that would have abolished capital punishment.

— Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2026
Both Weir and Khan have expressed their wishes for the reinstatement of tax-free shopping (abolished in 2021) for overseas visitors — a proposal that was met with cheers at the BFC’s fashion week breakfast this year.

— Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2026

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