clean up 是什么意思？clean up 的含义 - 柯林高阶英语学习词典 - 在线工具

1. phrasal verb

If you clean up a mess or clean up a place where there is a mess, you make things tidy and free of dirt again.

Police in the city have been cleaning up the debris left by a day of violent confrontation. [VERB PARTICLE noun]

Nina and Mary were in the kitchen, cleaning up after dinner. [VERB PARTICLE]

[Also VERB noun PARTICLE]

2. phrasal verb

To clean up something such as the environment or an industrial process means to make it free from substances or processes that cause pollution.

Under pressure from the public, many regional governments cleaned up their beaches. [VERB PARTICLE noun]

[Also VERB noun PARTICLE]

3. phrasal verb

If the police or authorities clean up a place or area of activity, they make it free from crime, corruption, and other unacceptable forms of behaviour.

After years of neglect and decline the city was cleaning itself up. [VERB pronoun-reflexive PARTICLE]

Since then, the authorities have tried to clean up the sport. [VERB PARTICLE noun]

4. phrasal verb

If you go and clean up, you make yourself clean and tidy, especially after doing something that has made you dirty.

Johnny, go inside and get cleaned up. [get V-ed P]

I cleaned myself up a bit, and got the baby ready. [VERB noun PARTICLE]

5. phrasal verb

If someone cleans up, they make a large profit or get a lot of money.

[informal]

It has cleaned up at the box office. [VERB PARTICLE]

clean-up

Word forms: plural clean-ups regional note: in AM, use cleanup

countable noun

A clean-up is the removing of dirt, pollution, crime, or corruption from somewhere.

...the need for a clean-up of Italian institutions. [+ of]

The Governor has now called in the National Guard to assist the cleanup operation.