spring cleaning

Noun

Meaning

the activity of cleaning a house thoroughly at the end of winter

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

spring-cleaning

Synonyms

spring clean cleaning washing purification sanitation cleansing sterilization springtime disinfection scrubbing catharsis ablution sterilisation brushing primavera
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Hypernyms

cleaning cleansing cleanup

Examples

Apologizing is like spring cleaning. Katherine Hannigan

I look forward to spring cleaning and putting things in their place. It's therapeutic for me. Kimora Lee Simmons

You find everything when you are spring cleaning. Yiddish Proverb

I want to turn everything upside down to see what lies beneath; I believe we are so webbed, so horribly regimented, that no spring-cleaning is possible, everything must be burned, blown to bits, and then we can start afresh.. Source: Internet

Two years later, in April 1957, co-worker Earl Reeder noticed a "nicely crystalline" compound left over from the discontinued project while spring-cleaning in the lab. Source: Internet

Spring cleaning got my Sunday like a job on its own! Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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