I hate those spiders. They're always there to freak me out when I'm cleaning.
Source: tatoeba (1686)
Cleaning
//ˈkliːnɪŋ//
Synonyms for "cleaning" (71 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (15)
Strong matches (21)
Related words (35)
Related word relations
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More general
1 entriescauses
20 entriesShowing 16 of 20 words.
defined as
1 entriesderived
16 entriesform of
1 entrieshas context
1 entrieshas prerequisite
14 entrieshas subevent
28 entriesShowing 16 of 28 words.
is a
5 entriesrelated to
4 entriesused for
19 entriescleanlinesscreating comfortable environmentfighting diseasefighting entropyfighting infectionsgetting rid of dirtgetting rid of grimegetting rid of stinkhygieneimpressing other peoplemaking not dirty anymoreorganizationremoving dirtremoving dirt from carpetsremoving dust from shelvesremoving food from dishes
Showing 16 of 19 words.
Translations
20 translations across 14 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- تَنْظِيف verb (action in which something is cleaned)
Armenian
1 entries- մաքրում verb (action in which something is cleaned)
Finnish
4 entries- puhdistaminen verb (action in which something is cleaned)
- puhdistus verb (action in which something is cleaned)
- siivoaminen verb (action in which something is cleaned)
- siivous verb (action in which something is cleaned)
Korean
1 entries- 정화 verb (action in which something is cleaned)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- rengjøring verb (action in which something is cleaned)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- reingjering verb (action in which something is cleaned)
Polish
2 entries- czyszczenie verb (action in which something is cleaned)
- sprzątanie verb (action in which something is cleaned)
Portuguese
1 entries- limpeza verb (action in which something is cleaned)
Russian
1 entries- очи́стка verb (action in which something is cleaned)
Spanish
1 entries- limpieza verb (action in which something is cleaned)
Swahili
1 entries- usafishaji verb (action in which something is cleaned)
Swedish
1 entries- rengöring verb (action in which something is cleaned)
Telugu
1 entries- ప్రక్షాళనము verb (action in which something is cleaned)
Turkish
3 entries- arıklaşma verb (action in which something is cleaned)
- temizleme verb (action in which something is cleaned)
- temizlik verb (action in which something is cleaned)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
We've finished cleaning our classroom.
Source: tatoeba (28973)
I spent a whole day cleaning up my room.
Source: tatoeba (32312)
Mike's job at home is cleaning the windows.
Source: tatoeba (32956)
Showing 4 of 13 available sentences.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.