Crossword-Solution: CLEANING 8 letters, 19 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Cleaning p. pr. & vb. n. of Clean
Cleaning n. The act of making clean.
Cleaning n. The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc.

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CLEANING anagram ENLACING

We have 19 clues for the answer “CLEANING”

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the act of making something clean 1 answer
Making a big profit, with "up" 1 answer
Certain crew's job 1 answer
Dry work? 1 answer
Dusting 2 answers
polishing 4 answers
depuration 7 answers
purifying 7 answers
Washing 11 answers
catharsis 14 answers
purgation 18 answers
Bathing 18 answers
ABLUTION 19 answers
streaming 22 answers
Cleansing 35 answers
rubbing 37 answers
purification 52 answers
purging 53 answers
gushing 58 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with CLEANING (5)

Darling saw his mouth twitch, and she made this handsome offer: to let Wendy go to him for a week every year to do his spring cleaning.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
She resolutely said, “I know not whether Jupiter will allot the prize to my son, but this I do know, that he is at least in the eyes of me his mother, the dearest, handsomest, and most beautiful of all.” The Widow and Her Little Maidens A WIDOW who was fond of cleaning had two little maidens to wait on her.
Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000
The arrival of a new baby meant a revision of her entire domestic schedule, and as she drove her needle along she had been working out new sleeping arrangements and cleaning days.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
The dark complexioned cleaning man wore a starchy white uniform with Mohammed's Cleaning Service emblazoned across the back in bold red letters.
Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993
The cabins, and berths, and bedding were all to have a thorough cleaning that evening, and no passenger could be allowed to come on board, before the morning.
The Moonstone Wilkie Collins 1994

Quotes with CLEANING (3)

Where’s the pizza?” Something warm and furry came and leaned against my right leg. I reached down to pet Rocky, a black lab who was going gray around his eyes and muzzle. “Rocky wants to know where the pizza is, too.”“He’s the reason the food is in the kitchen. Last time we kept it out here on the picnic table, he helped himself to half of a large bacon pepperoni pizza and then he threw up in my mom’s closet. She was cleaning dog barf out of her shoes for days.” I squatted do…
Chris Cannon Boomerang Boyfriend
As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges up memories. You feel like you’re a kid again, poking around in your parents’ closet, only this time there’s no chance of getting in trouble, so you don’t have to be so sure that everything gets put back exactly where it was before you did your poking around. Still, you hope to find something, or maybe you fear finding something, that will completely …
Roz Chast
After breakfast I spent an hour cleaning my revolver and trying my skill at a target. Jane shook her head, probably thinking that bullets were vain against demonic powers. But Perdita was hugely delighted with the shining little instrument and wanted it for a plaything; women of all ages will play with death! ("Absolute Evil")
Julian Hawthorne American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT.

Used 3 times in crossword archives (1998–2003).