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SPRING-CLEANING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("spring-cleaning" is a kind of...):

cleaning; cleansing; cleanup (the act of making something clean)

Derivation:

spring-clean (thoroughly clean the entire house, often done only once a year)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb spring-clean

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