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vacuum-clean

vacuum-clean verb: to clean with a vacuum cleaner.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To clean with a vacuum cleaner.
    Synonyms:
    hoover, vacuum

Synonyms of vacuum-clean

Forms of vacuum-clean

third-person singular presentvacuum-cleans
present participlevacuum-cleaning
past participlevacuum-cleaned
pastvacuum-cleaned

Origin of vacuum-clean

Back-formation from vacuum cleaner.

Questions about vacuum-clean

What does vacuum-clean mean?
Vacuum-clean means to clean with a vacuum cleaner.
What part of speech is vacuum-clean?
Vacuum-clean is a verb.
What is the past tense of vacuum-clean?
The past tense of vacuum-clean is vacuum-cleaned.

Words near vacuum-clean in the dictionary

  1. vacuum up
  2. vacuum valve
  3. vacuum valves
  4. vacuum workout
  5. vacuum workouts
  6. vacuum-clean
  7. vacuum-cleaned
  8. vacuum-cleaner
  9. vacuum-cleaners
  10. vacuum-cleaning
  11. vacuum-cleans

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