"spring-clean" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: spring-cleans [present, singular, third-person], spring-cleaning [participle, present], spring-cleaned [participle, past], spring-cleaned [past]
Etymology: Back-formation from spring-cleaning. Etymology templates: {{back-form|en|spring-cleaning}} Back-formation from spring-cleaning Head templates: {{en-verb}} spring-clean (third-person singular simple present spring-cleans, present participle spring-cleaning, simple past and past participle spring-cleaned)
  1. (transitive) To carry out spring-cleaning on (a room, a house, etc). Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-spring-clean-en-verb-y3CsyZGs
  2. (intransitive) To engage in spring-cleaning. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-spring-clean-en-verb-RrHuut8X Categories (other): English back-formations, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English back-formations: 42 58 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 36 64
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: spring-cleaner

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for spring-clean meaning in All languages combined (1.8kB)

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