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spotclean

spotclean is the alternative form of spot-clean.

Meaning of spot-clean

Verb

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

  1. To clean only those parts that are soiled, rather than cleaning the entire thing, area, etc.
    • “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.1999, Jeff Bredenberg, Clean It Fast, Clean It Right, page 151

Forms of spotclean

third-person singular presentspotcleans
present participlespotcleaning
past participlespotcleaned
pastspotcleaned

Questions about spotclean

What is spotclean the alternative form of?
Spotclean is the alternative form of spot-clean.

Words near spotclean in the dictionary

  1. spot-welds
  2. spot-winged antshrike
  3. spot-winged antshrikes
  4. spotbeam
  5. spotbeams
  6. spotclean
  7. spotcleaned
  8. spotcleaning
  9. spotcleans
  10. spotface
  11. spotfaced

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