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CLEAN UP

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make oneself clean, presentable or neat

Example:

Clean up before you go to the party

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "clean up" is one way to...):

groom; neaten (care for one's external appearance)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

cleanup (the act of making something clean)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Put (things or places) in order

Example:

Tidy up your room!

Synonyms:

clean up; neaten; square away; straighten; straighten out; tidy; tidy up

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "clean up" is one way to...):

order (bring order to or into)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "clean up"):

make; make up (put in order or neaten)

clean; clean house; houseclean (clean and tidy up the house)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Dispose of

Example:

settle the bills

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "clean up" is one way to...):

settle (dispose of; make a financial settlement)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Make a big profit; often in a short period of time

Example:

The investor really cleaned up when the stock market went up

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "clean up" is one way to...):

profit; turn a profit (make a profit; gain money or materially)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

cleanup (a very large profit)

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