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)
- To remove dirt from a place or object.
- Can you clean the windows today?
- To tidy up, make a place neat.
- Clean your room right now!
- To make things clean in general.
- She just likes to clean. That’s why I married her.
- To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.
- To remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.).
- 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.
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
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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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