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spring-clean

spring-clean verb: to carry out a spring cleaning of (a room, a house, etc).

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To carry out a spring cleaning of (a room, a house, etc).
    • The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home.1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 1
  2. (intransitive) To engage in spring cleaning.

spring-clean meaning in Tamil

spring-clean in Tamil

முற்றிலுந் துப்புரவு செய்

Forms of spring-clean

third-person singular presentspring-cleans
present participlespring-cleaning
past participlespring-cleaned
pastspring-cleaned

Origin of spring-clean

Back-formation from spring-cleaning.

Words formed from spring-clean

Questions about spring-clean

What does spring-clean mean?
Spring-clean means to carry out a spring cleaning of (a room, a house, etc).
What is spring-clean in Tamil?
Spring-clean in Tamil is முற்றிலுந் துப்புரவு செய். See Spring-clean meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is spring-clean?
Spring-clean is a verb.
What is the past tense of spring-clean?
The past tense of spring-clean is spring-cleaned.

Words near spring-clean in the dictionary

  1. spring-beetle
  2. spring-beetles
  3. spring-board
  4. spring-box
  5. spring-boxes
  6. spring-clean
  7. spring-cleaned
  8. spring-cleaner
  9. spring-cleaners
  10. spring-cleaning
  11. spring-cleans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spring-clean (page history and authors); spring-clean (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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