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- verb transitive To
clean to an excessive degree.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The article argues that in security, it is always better not to get invaded than to get invaded and clean up what you think has got through, because ‘cleaning’ products can underclean (miss unwanted material) or overclean (change or harm your computer).
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The article argues that in security, it is always better not to get invaded than to get invaded and clean up what you think has got through, because ‘cleaning’ products can underclean (miss unwanted material) or overclean (change or harm your computer).
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The article argues that in security, it is always better not to get invaded than to get invaded and clean up what you think has got through, because ‘cleaning’ products can underclean (miss unwanted material) or overclean (change or harm your computer).
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The article argues that in security, it is always better not to get invaded than to get invaded and clean up what you think has got through, because ‘cleaning’ products can underclean (miss unwanted material) or overclean (change or harm your computer).
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This book is full of easy and wise ways to green your cleaning and might even give you some insight into whether you overclean--as I used to--buying the marketers' ploys that we are in a war against microbes, must bleach, must ammonia, must KILL!
Archive 2007-07-01 GreenFertility 2007
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This book is full of easy and wise ways to green your cleaning and might even give you some insight into whether you overclean--as I used to--buying the marketers' ploys that we are in a war against microbes, must bleach, must ammonia, must KILL!
REVIEW: Green This! by Deirdre Imus GreenFertility 2007
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Women with this problem tend to overclean the vulva, contributing to further irritation.
OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005
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He had a good wife — though a little overclean — and seven fine-appetited children, who gave him the greatest pleasure in providing victuals.
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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His linen and his long scarf-like neck-tie were all such as are worn by people who aim at being stylish, but on closer inspection his linen was not overclean and his wide scarf was very threadbare.
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The house, with its bare, unplastered log walls, was not overclean — it did not seem that those living in it aimed at keeping it spotless — but neither was it noticeably neglected.
War and Peace 2003
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