Clean \Clean\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cleaned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Cleaning}.] [See {Clean}, a., and cf. {Cleanse}.] To render clean; to free from whatever is foul, offensive, or extraneous; to purify; to cleanse. {To clean out}, to exhaust; to empty; to get away from (one) all his money. [Colloq.] --De Quincey.