clean

Free of dirt, filth, or impurities (extraneous matter); not dirty, filthy, or soiled.

Are these dishes clean? Your room is finally clean! For a baby, happiness is a full bottle and a clean diaper.

Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefully furnished, and was very clean. There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.

Free of dirt, filth, or impurities (extraneous matter); not dirty, filthy, or soiled.

clean steel

Free of contamination, (unwanted) germs, infection, or disease.

Insert a clean swab into your nose.

"Serious as cognitohazard." Lillihammer danced down the corridor towards them, doing little pirouettes and leaping from toe to toe. "Reuben Wirth no longer exists. Gonna have to get Forsythe to do that brain scan to make sure I'm clean, but otherwise yeah. Poof."

Free of contamination, (unwanted) germs, infection, or disease.

I want to make sure my fiancé is clean before we are married.

Free of imperfections, blemishes, or defects.

Our team won, but it wasn't clean.

Removal of dirt.

This place needs a clean.

Give the pan a thorough clean.

The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders.

Clear vocals, contrasted with death growls and screams.

When people complained the songs were too hard, Kyle's clean vocals could bail out the band. Adding cleans would set off a chain reaction though - Kyle's crisp, clear presence could be seen as "betraying" the raw assault that Mike inflicts on the fans with his screams and growls.

Vocalist Kaan is impeccable in his performance engaging with the crowd and soulfully executing both searing screams and hauntingly melodic cleans.

To remove dirt from a place or object.

Can you clean the windows today?

To tidy up, make a place neat.

Clean your room right now!

To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.

To make things clean in general.

She just likes to clean. That’s why I married her.

To remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.).