What are some opposite words for clean up?
Antonyms for clean upclean up
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term clean up.
Princeton's WordNet
tidy, tidy up, clean up, neaten, straighten, straighten out, square awayverb
put (things or places) in order
"Tidy up your room!"
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shed light on, put right, disentangle, enlighten, unbend, crystalize, see the light, crystalise, elucidate, tidy up, crystallize, iron out, groom, square away, clear, straighten, reform, crystallise, straighten out, roll out, sort out, illuminate, unsnarl, neaten, clear up, tidyclean upverb
make a big profit; often in a short period of time
"The investor really cleaned up when the stock market went up"
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neaten, straighten, straighten out, tidy up, tidy, square awayclean upverb
dispose of
"settle the bills"
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neaten, straighten, straighten out, tidy up, tidy, square awayclean upverb
make oneself clean, presentable or neat
"Clean up before you go to the party"
Synonyms:
neaten, straighten, straighten out, tidy up, tidy, square away
How to use clean up in a sentence?
Amazon Chief Economist Pat Bajari:
What I've seen change in the industry, starting about eight years ago, is firms got more serious about using the scientific method and removing chunks of guesswork within companies, you're basically trying to clean up waste.
We need to find domestic sources, and secondary sources are important to look at, these are coming from waste piles particularly. If we can develop the technology, we can clean up the environment as well as get these resources.
Clean electricity ends up being a catalyst for an entire clean economy, it turns out we can use clean electricity to clean up our transportation, our buildings and even part of heavy industry.
We all bear some responsibility, and we need to try to clean up our act and try to bring more civility to our National Republican Congressional Committee, and frankly, to our dialogue, it's not too much to expect leaders to bring us together, to unite our country, to find a way to reach out to us, to our greater good, and make sure that we rise above all of the accusations, the hate and finger-pointing.
Bolsonaro was elected to clean up the system, and to our surprise, he is now dealing with parties whose leaders have been caught in corruption investigations.
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