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Synonyms for clean
Synonyms for clean: pick, neat, sporting and white. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 4 synonyms for clean
Interchangeable with clean, one per sense
Audited under clean's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one clean carries in that sense.
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name clean as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
The first group is filed under clean's own senses. The second reach clean from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside them is that word's.
remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits
Clean the turkey.
clean in 2 more sentences, same sense
- Clean the shrimp before you toss them into the boiling pot.
- She likes to clean the peaches at the counter before slicing them for pie.
How it behaves: In this sense, clean typically takes a direct object naming a food item such as poultry, fish, or fruit, often in imperative kitchen instructions.
The true synonym
pick
Same sentence, swapped: Pick the turkey.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- strip
- throw
- pull
free from clumsiness
The dancer executed a clean turn without wobbling.
The true synonym
neat
Same sentence, swapped: The dancer executed a neat turn without wobbling.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- fair
- white
- sweet
Where clean turns up in the game
clean is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in 11 other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 11 puzzles where clean is the trap
- bornadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is natural, in the sense "being talented through inherited qualities", and clean is one of the three tiles that lose.
- landverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is bring, in the sense "bring into a different state", and clean is on the board beside it.
- quickadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is warm, in the sense "easily aroused or excited", and clean is on the board beside it.
- calibrateverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is regulate, in the sense "to adjust an instrument or process precisely for accuracy", and clean is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play clean
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so clean reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other change words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. clean carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.