to clean out

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to clean out - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Clean \Clean\ (kl[=e]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cleaned
     (kl[=e]nd); 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.
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     To clean out, to exhaust; to empty; to get away from (one)
        all his money. [Colloq.] --De Quincey.
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