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cleaned (up)

verb

past tense of clean (up)
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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3
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)
  1. arranged
  2. censored
  3. eradicated
  4. picked up
  5. shortened
  6. erased
  7. ordered
  8. abolished
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  • Dogan deliberately arranged for Salah’s medical to take place in the metropolis of Istanbul, over 500 miles (nearly 900km) from Trabzon, so the Egyptian could see how frenzied the welcome would be.
    — Nick Miller, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • On Sunday, the Lime Rock Concours and Gathering of the Marques display nearly 1,000 enthusiast cars and motorcycles arranged around the Lime Rock circuit.
    — Mark Maglio, Hartford Courant, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of arranged
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  • Famously, nipples on male-presenting people are rarely censored—online or in real life—the way nipples on people with breasts are.
    — Kara McGrath, Allure, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Until after the fact, Field had no idea that she had been censored.
    — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of censored
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  • The team has eradicated every invasive casuarina pine, the Australian import whose needles poison the native plants beneath it, along with invasive sea grapes that chew up the dunes.
    — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Screwworm had been considered eradicated from the US, Mexico and most of Central America decades ago.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of eradicated
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  • Cathay Pacific picked up prizes for its cabin crew and first-class airline lounge.
    — Barry Neild, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Where the Department of Health and Human Services has failed, states and professional societies have picked up the ball and run with it, all for the greater good.
    — Sheldon H. Jacobson, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of picked up
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  • Small shares of travelers stayed closer to home, chose less expensive destinations or shortened their trips.
    — Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Odds on Lowden becoming Bond shortened after Oldman’s remarks.
    — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of shortened
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  • Sullivan discussed the state’s history of LGBTQ+ people and organizations and how much of that history has been intentionally erased, according to The Alabama Reflector.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Not honoring a family’s home language would mean the welcome and validation that families feel in the program would be erased.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of erased
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  • That puts the network front and center, and it must be engineered as a first-class part of the architecture, rather than ordered last.
    — Ido Susan, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Newsom ordered the dismantling of San Quentin’s death row and execution chamber.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of ordered
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  • In 2017, Alabama abolished judicial override and stopped allowing judges to change juries' sentencing decision in capital cases.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026
  • The practice − called judicial override − was abolished in Alabama in 2017 but the move did not apply to old cases.
    — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2026
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“Cleaned (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cleaned%20%28up%29. Accessed 20 Sep. 2026.

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