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clean up one's plate

clean up one's plate verb: to eat all the food on one's plate.

Verb

clean up one's plate (third-person singular simple present cleans up one's plate, present participle cleaning up one's plate, simple past and past participle cleaned up one's plate)

  1. To eat all the food on one's plate.

Forms of clean up one's plate

third-person singular presentcleans up one's plate
present participlecleaning up one's plate
past participlecleaned up one's plate
pastcleaned up one's plate
alternative formclean one's plate

Questions about clean up one's plate

What does clean up one's plate mean?
Clean up one's plate means to eat all the food on one's plate.
What part of speech is clean up one's plate?
Clean up one's plate is a verb.
What is the past tense of clean up one's plate?
The past tense of clean up one's plate is cleaned up one's plate.

Words near clean up one's plate in the dictionary

  1. clean teen
  2. clean teens
  3. clean up
  4. clean up after
  5. clean up one's act
  6. clean up one's plate
  7. clean URL
  8. clean URLs
  9. clean-cut
  10. clean-handed
  11. clean-handedly

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