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clean out

• thoroughly clean the inside of something.
• "my mum says I have to go and clean out the hamster's cage"
• use up or take all someone's money.
• "they were cleaned out by the Englishman at the baccarat table"
Similar: bankrupt, ruin, make insolvent, make penniless, wipe out, impoverish, reduce to penury/destitution, bring to ruin, bring someone to their knees, break, cripple, pauperize, beggar,

clean-out noun

• an instance of thoroughly cleaning the inside of something.
• "the entire sewer is having a clean-out"


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