Crossword clues for clean up
Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To make an area or a thing clean; to pick up a mess; to tidy.
WordNet
v. put (things or places) in order; "Tidy up your room!" [syn: tidy, tidy up, neaten, straighten, straighten out, square away]
make a big profit; often in a short period of time; "The investor really cleaned up when the stock market went up"
dispose of; "settle the bills"
make oneself clean, presentable or neat; "Clean up before you go to the party"
Usage examples of "clean up".
Then, today, while I was trying to clean up a little (mostly I'm too exhausted and dispirited to even try), I broke my mother's favorite plate, the one with the Currier & Ives sledding scene on it.
Cawti was off seeing her old friend Kelly and his merry band of nut cases and I had returned to running my business and trying to clean up South Adrilankha without filing Surrender of Debts to the Empire.