verb
clean by means of steaming
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steam-clean the upholstered sofa
• Syn: ↑steam
• Hypernyms: ↑clean, ↑make clean
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something
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Something ——s something
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steam clean UK US verb [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they steam clean he/she/it steam cleans present participle steam cleaning past tense steam cleaned past participle steam cleaned]
to clean clothes with a machine that produces steam
Thesaurus: to wash something cleansynonym
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verb, ⋯ cleans, ⋯ cleaned, ⋯ cleaning [+ obj]
chiefly US : to clean (something) with a machine that produces hot steam
I steam cleaned the carpets.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.