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?
We're going to clean up this country. Corruption will end. Impunity will end. And there will be justice.
I'm putting 500 or 600 bucks in my guitar a day. The girls not being here, we clean up.
I was going to be the new guy that the government sent in to clean up the mess that happened in the first season, i asked, ‘Is he a bad guy?’ ‘Is he a good guy?’ They said, ‘We’re going to see.’ I don’t know if they knew already, but they didn’t tell me. We would get the scripts as the story went along… And the friendlier my character became, the more you got suspicious…. I was like, ‘Oh man, he sounds like your family doctor.'.
White House adviser Peter Navarro:
The president has decided it is time to clean up this Wild West of counterfeiting and trafficking.
I guess his motive might have been a rejection finally of their friendship or whatever you want to call it by my dad, my dad wanted to make some changes. He was getting divorced. He was trying to clean up his act. And maybe Carpenter couldn’t handle that… He got my dad involved in these swing parties back then… I can’t say my dad wouldn’t have done that on his own somehow, but Carpenter knew the avenues to travel and took my dad along on some of these adventures.
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