Synonyms for cleaning
clean·ing

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1. cleaning, cleansing, cleanupnoun

   the act of making something clean

   "he gave his shoes a good cleaning"

   Synonyms:
   cleanup position, cleanup spot, killing, cleansing, cleanup

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1. List of paraphrases for "cleaning":

   clean-up, cleansing, cleanup, clean, cleanliness, clearance, clearing, washing, cleaner, cleaners, purification, wash, household

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1. Burhan Chowdhury:

   She was telling my father, a sick person, that he should go to jail. That’s ridiculous, you can’t give a 72-year-old person jail time for not cleaning an alley. I was really shocked by it. I didn’t expect her to yell at us in this kind of a situation.

2. Arun Krishnamurthy:

   I can not just walk into any neighborhood and start cleaning up a lake or a pond until the community there has a buy-in... if they are willing to participate, otherwise, it's just my responsibility to clean it up, and tomorrow it will go back to where it was before.

3. Heather Kaisner:

   They go in and they do some spring cleaning, and there are mice droppings everywhere.

4. Jennifer Lavers:

   If we were to lose these crab species or they were able to become substantially less abundant, that has implications for sediment turnover. It has implications for forest regeneration and growth. It has implications for the tidiness of our beach and ocean environments because potentially you don't have the vultures coming in and cleaning things up.

5. Carla Davidson:

   As far as impact to the environment, I think Pepsi is cleaning it up, and we’ll be working with them to prevent discharges like this from happening in the future, there was not a release to surface water that we know of, so that’s also a positive.