"clean house" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-clean house.ogg [Australia] Forms: cleans house [present, singular, third-person], cleaning house [participle, present], cleaned house [participle, past], cleaned house [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} clean house (third-person singular simple present cleans house, present participle cleaning house, simple past and past participle cleaned house)
  1. (intransitive) To clean the interior of a house. Tags: intransitive Related terms: dead wood, put one's house in order, clean up, clean sweep
    Sense id: en-clean_house-en-verb-YnYDEJEY
  2. (intransitive, idiomatic) To reform a workplace, organization, etc. by removing undesirable personnel and/or procedures. Tags: idiomatic, intransitive
    Sense id: en-clean_house-en-verb-B9FOSo0y Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 11 78 11
  3. (intransitive, slang) To win overwhelmingly. Tags: intransitive, slang
    Sense id: en-clean_house-en-verb-Z~CzVMk5

Inflected forms

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