clean off in English

Forms: cleans off [present, singular, third-person], cleaning off [participle, present], cleaned off [participle, past], cleaned off [past] [Show additional information ▼] [Hide additional information ▲]

Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} clean off (third-person singular simple present cleans off, present participle cleaning off, simple past and past participle cleaned off)

Inflected forms

[Show JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cleans off",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cleaning off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cleaned off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cleaned off",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "clean off (third-person singular simple present cleans off, present participle cleaning off, simple past and past participle cleaned off)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"off\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              5
            ],
            [
              17,
              20
            ]
          ],
          "text": "Clean the stains off the bureau.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "Clean the table off please."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To remove (something) by cleaning; to thoroughly clean (something) or make (something) bare."
      ],
      "id": "en-clean_off-en-verb-T8I9HTMt",
      "links": [
        [
          "clean",
          "clean"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(ditransitive or transitive) To remove (something) by cleaning; to thoroughly clean (something) or make (something) bare."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "ditransitive",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "clean off"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cleans off",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cleaning off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cleaned off",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cleaned off",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "clean off (third-person singular simple present cleans off, present participle cleaning off, simple past and past participle cleaned off)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English ditransitive verbs",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs formed with \"off\"",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              5
            ],
            [
              17,
              20
            ]
          ],
          "text": "Clean the stains off the bureau.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "Clean the table off please."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To remove (something) by cleaning; to thoroughly clean (something) or make (something) bare."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "clean",
          "clean"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(ditransitive or transitive) To remove (something) by cleaning; to thoroughly clean (something) or make (something) bare."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "ditransitive",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "clean off"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-02-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (f492ef9 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.

"clean off" meaning in English

Verb

Inflected forms