The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clean \Clean\ (kl[=e]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cleaned (kl[=e]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cleaning.] [See Clean,
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, and cf. Cleanse.] To render clean; to free from whatever is foul, offensive, or extraneous; to purify; to cleanse.
To clean out, to exhaust; to empty; to get away from (one) all his money. [Colloq.]
--De Quincey.
Usage examples of "to clean out".
I mean to clean out the whole nest of them, the way you deal with vermin.
With your people on the scene yesterday and again this morning and with two officers badly hurt, they may well decide to clean out these corridors--and that means you will suffer.
However, Geordi La Forge had asked Worf to accompany him to clean out Data’.
With your people on the scene yesterday and again this morning and with two officers badly hurt, they may well decide to clean out these corridors-and that means you will suffer.
Once the sap was gone, it left behind a brown, gummy residue which was a prime nuisance to clean out.
Next, the gash it left became infected and they had to go back in and perform a day surgery to clean out the wound and sew me up again.
Time went by, the wine was sold, and when they came to clean out the cask, they found in it a small key hanging to a thong of cordovan.
Then I suspect the general will want us to clean out their surveillance teams again.