cleaning
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
cleaning
- present participle and gerund of clean
Noun[edit]
cleaning (countable and uncountable, plural cleanings)
- (gerund of clean) The process of making something clean.
- 2009 January 13, Jane E. Brody, “New Thinking on How to Protect the Heart”, in New York Times[1]:
- So good dental hygiene, with regular periodontal cleanings, can help protect your heart as well as your teeth.
- The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc.
- 1844, Henry Stephens, The Book of Farm:
- The risk which the cow runs, after slinking, is in not getting quit of the cleaning, or afterbirth, or placenta […]
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Translations[edit]
action in which something is cleaned
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