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spring-clean en · VERB

Etymology

Back-formation from spring-cleaning.

Meanings

  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.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
spring-cleaned Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
spring-cleaned Tense=Past lexicographic
spring-cleaning Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
spring-cleans Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Deriveds

spring-cleaner