English Dictionary
◊ CLEANSE
cleanse
v 1: clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing; "clean up
before you see your grandparents"; "clean your
fingernails before dinner" [syn: {clean}]
2: free from Nazi ideology; "Germany was denazified after WW
II" [syn: {denazify}] [ant: {Nazify}]
English Computing Dictionary
◊ DID YOU MEAN CLEAN?
clean
1. Used of hardware or software designs, implies "elegance in
the small", that is, a design or implementation that may not
hold any surprises but does things in a way that is reasonably
intuitive and relatively easy to comprehend from the outside.
The antonym is "grungy" or {crufty}.
2. To remove unneeded or undesired files in a effort to reduce
clutter: "I'm cleaning up my account." "I cleaned up the
garbage and now have 100 Meg free on that partition."
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(1994-12-12)