"spot-clean" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spot-cleans",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spot-cleaning",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spot-cleaned",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spot-cleaned",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999, Jeff Bredenberg, Clean It Fast, Clean It Right, page 151",
          "text": "“You can ruin the cloth if you try to spot-clean it,” warns Susan Fritz, co-owner of Denver Doll Hospital, a doll-cleaning and restoration business.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Linda Cobb, The Queen of Clean's Complete Cleaning Guide",
          "text": "If you need to spot-clean a dryclean-only fabric, try using Energine Cleaning Fluid, available at grocery and hardware stores.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Mark Montano, Carly Sommerstein, Window Treatments and Slipcovers For Dummies, page 68",
          "text": "To spot-clean, you can either use a dry-cleaning solution or a very mild, nonperfumed soap or Woolite and water.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To clean only those parts that are soiled, rather than cleaning the entire thing, area, etc."
      ],
      "id": "en-spot-clean-en-verb-1uve87e2",
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "spotclean"
        },
        {
          "word": "spot clean"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "spot-clean"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spot-cleans",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spot-cleaning",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spot-cleaned",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spot-cleaned",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1999, Jeff Bredenberg, Clean It Fast, Clean It Right, page 151",
          "text": "“You can ruin the cloth if you try to spot-clean it,” warns Susan Fritz, co-owner of Denver Doll Hospital, a doll-cleaning and restoration business.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Linda Cobb, The Queen of Clean's Complete Cleaning Guide",
          "text": "If you need to spot-clean a dryclean-only fabric, try using Energine Cleaning Fluid, available at grocery and hardware stores.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Mark Montano, Carly Sommerstein, Window Treatments and Slipcovers For Dummies, page 68",
          "text": "To spot-clean, you can either use a dry-cleaning solution or a very mild, nonperfumed soap or Woolite and water.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To clean only those parts that are soiled, rather than cleaning the entire thing, area, etc."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "spotclean"
    },
    {
      "word": "spot clean"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spot-clean"
}