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spring-clean
[ spring-kleen ]
/ ˈsprɪŋˈklin /
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verb (used with object)
to subject (a place) to a spring-cleaning.
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Origin of spring-clean
First recorded in 1890–95
Words nearby spring-clean
spring break,
springbuck,
spring cankerworm,
spring catch,
spring chicken,
spring-clean,
spring-cleaning,
spring conjunctivitis,
Springdale,
springe,
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How to use spring-clean in a sentence
She completed a yoga teacher-training program and, in the spring of 2008, went on a retreat in Peru to study with shamans.
With Charlie Hebdo, “you really have a clean case here,” Shearer said.
This is the Mexico that U.S. college students would be wise to steer clear of on spring break.
It is the only tourist center Ukraine has left on the Black Sea, since Russia annexed Crimea last spring.
This is a guy who has his son-in-law clean his eyeglasses, for crying out loud.
It was a spring day, and the fat buds of the chestnuts were bursting into magnificent green plumes.
He shall give his mind to finish the glazing, and his watching to make clean the furnace.
I do not know what I think; all my thoughts seem whirling round as leaves do in brooks in the time of the spring rains.
In the spring of 1868 he was taken by his mother for a visit to England, and there, in the same year, his sister was born.
The cat had been about to spring at Grandfather Mole again when Mr. Crow spoke to her.
British Dictionary definitions for spring-clean
verb
to clean (a house) thoroughly: traditionally at the end of the winter
noun
an instance of spring-cleaning
Derived forms of spring-clean
spring-cleaning, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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