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make clean

v. make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from; "Clean the stove!"; "The dentist cleaned my teeth" [syn: clean] [ant: dirty]

Usage examples of "make clean".

If with the permission of the just and secret judgement of God, through the arts of sorceresses and witches and the preparation of the devil, men are bewitched in their procreant function, they are to be urged to make clean confession to God and His priest of all their sins with a contrite heart and a humble spirit.

In return, he did a thing that only his death can make clean again.

In reconstructing the institutions of these shattered and overthrown States, Congress should begin with a clean slate, and make clean work of it.

He, praise Saint Calembaurnus, make clean breastsack of goody girl now as ever drank milksoep from a spoen, weedhearted boy of potter and mudder, chip of old Flinn the Flinter, twig of the hider that tanned him.

Congress should begin with a clean slate, and make clean work of it.

Royal and Almanzo took pitchforks and went from stall to stall, cleaning out the soiled hay underfoot, and spreading fresh hay from the mangers to make clean beds for the cows and the oxen and the calves and the sheep.

I had learned to make clean clinical drawings, accurate Pictures of limbs and bodies, but I lacked Brianna's gift of bringing lilies to life.