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spring-cleans

spring-cleans is the third-person singular simple present indicative of spring-clean.

Meaning of spring-clean

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.

Questions about spring-cleans

What is spring-cleans the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Spring-cleans is the third-person singular simple present indicative of spring-clean.

Words near spring-cleans in the dictionary

  1. spring-clean
  2. spring-cleaned
  3. spring-cleaner
  4. spring-cleaners
  5. spring-cleaning
  6. spring-cleans
  7. spring-heeled
  8. Spring-heeled Jack
  9. spring-heeled Jacks
  10. spring-like
  11. spring-load

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