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cleaning (up)verbpresent participle of clean (up) to make a place neat and orderly by removing extraneous stuffyou're expected to clean up after you use the workroom picking up, tidying (up) housecleaning, housekeepingcleaning (off), neatening, policing (up), straightening (up), turning out, unclutteringarranging, ordering cleaning house, setting straight cluttering, disarranging, messing (up) to remove objectionable parts fromcleaned up the rock star's interview before publishing it in the newspaper bowdlerizing, censoring, expurgating, laundering, red-penciling cleansing, purging, purifyingabbreviating, blue-penciling, editing, shorteningbleeping, blipping, cutting (out), deleting, excising, expunging, gutting, x-ing (out)(or x'ing (out))blacking out, repressing, silencing, suppressingcensuring, condemning, denouncingexamining, reviewing, screening, scrutinizing approving, authorizing, sanctioning to destroy all traces ofhurriedly cleaned up the mess that they had created in the kitchen abolishing, annihilating, blacking out, blotting out, canceling(or cancelling), effacing, eradicating, erasing, expunging, exterminating, extirpating, liquidating, obliterating, rooting (out), rubbing out, snuffing (out), stamping (out), sweeping (away), wiping out decimating, demolishing, destroying, devastating, ravagingdismantling, flattening, mowing (down), razing, tearing downruining, totaling(or totalling), wasting, wreckingblasting, blowing up, dashing, dynamiting, smashingatomizing, consuming, devouring, dissolving, fragmenting, powdering, pulverizing, shattering, splinteringdooming, finishing, killing, killing off, terminating, zappingcanceling(or cancelling), cutting, discarding, ditching, ejecting, excising, expelling, jettisoning, ousting, throwing out conserving, preserving, protecting, savingbuilding, constructing, creating, fabricating, fashioning, forging, forming, framing, making, manufacturing, shapingfixing, mending, patching, rebuilding, reconditioning, reconstructing, renewing, renovating, repairing, restoring, revamping |