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"sense": "to make an area or a thing clean",
"word": "прибираться"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "to make an area or a thing clean",
"word": "počistiti"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to make an area or a thing clean",
"word": "limpiar"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "prybyráty",
"sense": "to make an area or a thing clean",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "прибира́ти"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "prybráty",
"sense": "to make an area or a thing clean",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "прибра́ти"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to make an area or a thing clean",
"word": "quét dọn"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to make an area or a thing clean",
"word": "quét tước"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "to make an area or a thing clean",
"tags": [
"North",
"colloquial"
],
"word": "llnau tua"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"clean up"
],
"word": "clean up"
}
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"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English phrasal verbs",
"English phrasal verbs with particle (up)",
"English terms with audio links",
"English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verbs",
"Requests for review of French translations",
"Requests for review of Swedish translations",
"en:Appearance"
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "clean up (uncountable)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "cleanup"
}
],
"categories": [
"English misspellings"
],
"glosses": [
"Misspelling of cleanup."
],
"links": [
[
"cleanup",
"cleanup#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"misspelling",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "en-au-clean up.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/9b/En-au-clean_up.ogg/En-au-clean_up.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/En-au-clean_up.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"clean up"
],
"word": "clean up"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-17 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-01 using wiktextract (0b52755 and 5cb0836). 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.