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Collocations for clean - noun

Clean is used after these nouns:
spring

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Collocations for clean - 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.

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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.

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PHRASES

freshly cleaned
The freshly cleaned windows sparkled.
need cleaning
Your shoes need cleaning!

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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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Collocations for clean - 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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Collocations for clean - adv.

Clean is used with these verbs:
forget

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