• clean (v.): purgo, mundo, purum facio: v. to cleanse. Phr.: to c. iron tools. ferramenta detersa nitidare, atque robigine liberare, Col.: esp. with prep. out: to c. out a kitchen, mangers, etc., culinam, praesepia mundanda curare, immunditiis liberare, Col.: to c. out a stable. fimum de stabulo egerere, or simply stabulum egerere, Lact. (of the stable of Augeas): to c. out hives, alvearia sordibus purgare, Pall.: to c. out the bed of the Tiber again, alveum Tiberis repurgare, Suet.: to c. out sewers, cloacas detergere, Liv.