clean

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noun

Clean is used after these nouns: ↑spring

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verb

ADVERB

▪ effectively, well

▪

This product cleans baths very effectively.

▪ easily

▪

Ceramic tiles can be easily cleaned.

▪ properly, thoroughly

▪

I clean the house thoroughly once a week.

▪ carefully, gently

▪

He gently cleaned the wound and dressed it.

▪ out, up

▪

I cleaned out all the cupboards.

PREPOSITION

▪ away

▪

She wiped her foot to clean away the blood.

▪ from, off

▪

I cleaned the mud off the kitchen floor.

▪ with

▪

Clean the glass with a soft cloth.

PHRASES

▪ freshly cleaned

▪

The freshly cleaned windows sparkled.

▪ need cleaning

▪

Your shoes need cleaning!

Clean is used with these nouns as the object: ↑apartment, ↑bathroom, ↑blackboard, ↑brush, ↑carpet, ↑chimney, ↑closet, ↑contact lens, ↑cut, ↑desk, ↑dish, ↑ear, ↑exterior, ↑fish, ↑floor, ↑glass, ↑glasses, ↑graffiti, ↑house, ↑nail, ↑oven, ↑painting, ↑plate, ↑room, ↑shoe, ↑stall, ↑tank, ↑tooth, ↑window, ↑windscreen, ↑wing, ↑wound

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adj.

VERBS

▪ be, look, seem, smell

▪

The room smelled clean and fresh.

▪ stay

▪

The bathroom doesn't stay clean for long.

▪ brush sth, get sth, scrape sth, scrub sth, wash, wipe sth

▪

I scrubbed the floor to get it clean.

▪

She wiped all the surfaces clean.

▪ leave sth

▪

Please leave the kitchen clean.

▪ keep sth

▪

You're supposed to keep your room clean.

ADVERB

▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.

▪ completely, perfectly, totally

▪ reasonably, relatively

▪ immaculately, spotlessly

▪

The whole house was spotlessly clean.

▪ almost, nearly

▪

It's almost clean. I just have to wipe the table.

PHRASES

▪ clean and tidy (esp. BrE), neat and clean (AmE)

▪

His room is always clean and tidy/neat and clean.

▪ lovely and clean (BrE), nice and clean

▪

The water was lovely and clean.

Clean is used with these nouns: ↑air, ↑bandage, ↑break, ↑catch, ↑clothes, ↑coal, ↑conscience, ↑copy, ↑cut, ↑dish, ↑dressing, ↑driving licence, ↑election, ↑electricity, ↑energy, ↑environment, ↑fight, ↑floor, ↑fuel, ↑fun, ↑hand, ↑handkerchief, ↑image, ↑kill, ↑kitchen, ↑laundry, ↑linen, ↑look, ↑nappy, ↑needle, ↑pair, ↑plate, ↑rag, ↑record, ↑room, ↑shave, ↑sheet, ↑shirt, ↑shot, ↑sock, ↑sound, ↑straw, ↑street, ↑syringe, ↑towel, ↑underwear, ↑water, ↑window, ↑wound

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adv.

Clean is used with these verbs: ↑forget