"vacuum-clean" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-vacuum-clean.wav Forms: vacuum-cleans [present, singular, third-person], vacuum-cleaning [participle, present], vacuum-cleaned [participle, past], vacuum-cleaned [past]
Etymology: Back-formation of vacuum cleaner. Etymology templates: {{back-formation|en|vacuum cleaner}} Back-formation of vacuum cleaner, {{sup|th}} ᵗʰ, {{sup|st}} ˢᵗ, {{quote-gloss|Back-formation}} [Back-formation] Head templates: {{en-verb}} vacuum-clean (third-person singular simple present vacuum-cleans, present participle vacuum-cleaning, simple past and past participle vacuum-cleaned)
  1. (transitive) To clean with a vacuum cleaner. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Hygiene Synonyms: vacuum, hoover Translations (to clean with a vacuum cleaner): vysát (Czech), stofzuigen (Dutch), imuroida (Finnish), passer l’aspirateur (French), porszívózik (Hungarian), ryksuga (Icelandic), пылесо́сить (pylesósitʹ) (Russian), pasar la aspiradora (Spanish), aspirar [Latin-America] (Spanish), dammsuga (Swedish)

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