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clean (someone/something) up


phrasal verb with cleanverbuk /kliːn/ us /kliːn/
C1
to make a person or place clean and tidy: (把…)梳洗整齐;打扫,清理
We'll go out as soon as I've cleaned up the kitchen.我一收拾完厨房我们就出去。
I need to clean up (= clean myself or the place where I am) before we go out.我们出去之前我得先收拾收拾。
Clean yourself up a bit before dinner.吃饭前先把你自己弄干净点儿。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to clean something
cleanDid you clean the kitchen?
washYou need to wash your hands before supper.
clean upClean up this mess!
clean outI spent the weekend cleaning out the kitchen cabinets.
wipeShe wiped the mirrors until they shone.
wipe downWe wipe down the tables after every customer leaves.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Cleaning & tidying places & things
adjust
airing
bed
bioremediation
clean something out
dusting
freshen (someone/something) up
going-over
Hoover
hoover something up
muck
sandblast
smarten (someone/something) up
spiff someone/something up
spit
spit and polishidiom
spring-clean
spruce
tidy
valet

clean (something) up


phrasal verb with cleanverbuk /kliːn/ us /kliːn/
slang
to win a lot of money: 赢得大笔钱,赚大钱,发大财
We cleaned up at the poker table last night.我们昨晚在牌桌上赢了一大把。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Winning and defeating
annihilate
annihilation
bank
be gunning for someoneidiom
be one in the eye for someoneidiom
convincing
moral victory
move/go/close in for the killidiom
near thing
outclass
outcompete
sew
slaughter
sweep
take someone down
take someone to the cleaner'sidiom
take something apart
takedown
thrash
thrashing

clean something up


phrasal verb with cleanverbuk /kliːn/ us /kliːn/

(CRIME)


to stop illegal or dishonest activity in a place or organization: 肃清,整顿,清理(非法或不诚实行为)
We need a mayor who is tough enough to clean up this town.我们需要一位强硬的市长来整顿这个城市。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Correcting and mending
calibration
correction
fiddle (around) with something
fine-tune
fix something up
mess
reconstruction
recover
rectifiable
rectification
refine
refinement
remedy
revised
scratch
smooth something away
smoothen
sort
sort something out
troubleshoot

(BAD BEHAVIOUR)


to stop or limit the violence, sex, or bad behaviour shown or contained in programmes or books, magazines, etc., to make them more acceptable: 肃清,净化(节目或书刊中的暴力、色情或不道德内容)
Some people think that television should be cleaned up.有些人认为应该净化电视节目。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Forbidding and banning things
abolish
abolition
abolitionist
anti-censorship
ban
decertification
decertify
deny something to someone
disallow
disqualification
off-limits
out of boundsidiom
outlaw
prohibit
prohibition
unauthorized
unkosher
unsanctioned
verboten
veto
clean-up
noun[ S ]
uk /ˈkliːn.ʌp/ us /ˈkliːn.ʌp/
the act of making a place clean and tidy: 梳洗整齐;打扫,清理
a clean-upIt's time you gave your bedroom a good clean-up.你该好好打扫一下你的卧室了。
Residents have called for a clean-up campaign to keep their streets free from rubbish.居民们呼吁展开一次清洁卫生运动,让街头没有垃圾。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Cleaning & tidying places & things
adjust
airing
bed
bioremediation
clean something out
dusting
freshen (someone/something) up
going-over
Hoover
hoover something up
muck
sandblast
smarten (someone/something) up
spiff someone/something up
spit
spit and polishidiom
spring-clean
spruce
tidy
valet
clean-up
adverb
uk /ˈkliːn.ʌp/ us /ˈkliːn.ʌp/
If a player in a baseball team hits clean-up, they take the fourth turn to try to hit the ball and are the most likely to hit the ball powerfully:
He proved that he was the team's best hitter and soon he was batting clean-up.
I'm really excited that Jack is going to hit clean-up for us.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Baseball & rounders
1-2-3 inning
ahead
alley
around the hornidiom
at bat
bomb
curve
hit the ball out of the parkidiom
hitting coach
home plate
home stand
horsehide
hot corner
sac
spitter
split-fingered fastball
splitter
squeeze play
starting pitcher
swing

clean up something | American Dictionary


clean up something


phrasal verb with cleanverb[ I/T ]us/klin/

(MAKE NEAT)


to remove dirt from something or make something neat:
We need to do something to clean up this mess and then get out of there.
I have to clean things up before the guests arrive.

clean up something


phrasal verb with cleanverb[ I/T ]us/klin/

(REMOVE EVILS)


to remove illegal or dishonest activity from a place:
We need a mayor who is tough enough to clean up this town.

clean up | Business English


clean up


phrasal verb with cleanverbuk /kliːn/us
informal
to get a lot of money:
With holiday spending already up by 10%, retailers are really hoping to clean up this season.

clean sth up


phrasal verb with cleanverbuk /kliːn/us
informal
to stop illegal and dishonest activity in a company, system, etc.:
Last week the Government announced plans to clean up the mortgage industry.
After the scandal, a team of marketing specialists was hired to clean up the company's image.
ENVIRONMENT
to remove harmful substances or chemicals from a place or the environment:
clean up pollution/contamination/waste$250 million was spent on cleaning up groundwater contamination at the former factory's site.
clean-up
noun[ C ]
(alsocleanup)ukus
ENVIRONMENT
an act of removing harmful substances or chemicals from a place or the environment:
Over $100 million was allocated for the cleanup of hazardous chemicals and radioactive waste.
WORKPLACE
an act of improving a company or system by removing people and stopping activities that are dishonest or causing problems:
The cleanup involved foreclosing on thousands of problem loans and selling the properties that secured them.

Examples of clean (someone/something) up


clean (someone/something) up
The three tiers of monitoring provide a range of information necessary for the management of clean-up operations.
In 1997, some provinces ceased to process new applicants during the clean-up process and others defaulted on payments.
Given the large quantity of petroleum-contaminated soil present, remediation processes that can be carried out in situ are likely to be the preferable clean-up options.
With increasing public attention regarding the preservation of the environment, the development of oil clean-up technologies has gained considerable interest.
In the results section, the authors estimate the number of cases of childhood morbidity that could be averted in each pollution clean-up scenario.
This figure also shows a clean-up transducer which removes any violation markers from the eventual outputs.
Together, this information is used as the basis for trigger values to initiate remediation and target values to be achieved by clean-up.
During the 2000 clean-up, approximately 1 tonne of material was removed from the surface of the bottle dump.
The women's group participated in the construction, painting, installing lights and clean-up of the laboratory.
The increasing attention toward environmental quality has brought forward proposals for clean-up and restoration of natural environments.
Alternatively, there might be some clean-up process acting on the output pattern which will take time to settle into an equilibrium state.
Once the data collection is completed, the authors develop projections of population and two different air pollution clean-up campaigns for the period 2002-2011.
The second proposed tier was medium-term monitoring to confirm that clean-up does not create greater adverse environmental impacts.
The third tier was designed to determine whether the clean-up provides long-term environmental benefits.
Often clean-up projects are required to use local labour when available.
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