What is "licked clean"

Usage examples of "licked clean".

His wounds had healed, licked clean by his dogs, but the touch of Aoi magic had somehow scoured his senses so every touch of his skin on stone or on the harsh coat of the dogs or on the coarse metal of his chains flamed like fire through his body, every smelleven and especially his ownmade him reel, every taste of such food as he could glean from the garbage tossed aside by Bloodheart and his sons nauseated him.

The cream substance, for want of any spoon, he licked clean of its container.

The only thing he owned was a wooden bowl that he ate from and licked clean.

She is lifted up now and her blood-smeared belly and breasts are licked clean.

When the giligee had the brain-bird lying licked clean and naked on the fronds, the troupe witnessed its transfer into the giligee's pouch, then all assisted in cleaning Favel's delicate skull.

I stacked up the dishes, which Loiosh and Rocza had already licked clean, and wiped off the table, throwing the crumbs into the stove.

I later held her quiet in my arms while she, with her small, soft tongue, licked clean the stubble of my beard.

The waiter cleared away the plates that we had all but licked clean.

I noted, too, that all but the thickest deer bones had been cracked and licked clean of marrow.