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cleant

cleant is the simple past and past participle of clean.

Meaning of clean

Verb

clean (third-person singular simple present cleans, present participle cleaning, simple past and past participle cleaned)

  1. (transitive) To remove dirt from a place or object.
    • Can you clean the windows today?
  2. (transitive) To tidy up, make a place neat.
    • Clean your room right now!
  3. (intransitive) To make things clean in general.
    • She just likes to clean. That’s why I married her.
  4. (transitive) To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.
  5. (transitive) To remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.).
  6. (intransitive) To brush the ice lightly in front of a moving rock to remove any debris and ensure a correct line; less vigorous than a sweep.

See all 39 meanings of clean

Origin of cleant

From clean + -t, by analogy with lean : leant.

Questions about cleant

What is cleant the simple past and past participle of?
Cleant is the simple past and past participle of clean.

Words near cleant in the dictionary

  1. cleansing
  2. cleansingly
  3. cleansings
  4. cleanskin
  5. cleanskins
  6. cleant
  7. cleantech
  8. cleantechs
  9. cleanth
  10. Cleanthean
  11. Cleanthes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cleant (page history and authors); clean (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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