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vacuum-clean

Variant of vacuum

noun pl. vacuums or vacua

  1. a space with nothing at all in it; completely empty space
    1. an enclosed space, as that inside a vacuum tube, out of which most of the air or gas has been taken, as by pumping
    2. the degree to which pressure has been brought below atmospheric pressure
  2. a space left empty by the removal or absence of something usually found in it; void: often used figuratively
  3. vacuum cleaner

adjective

  1. of a vacuum
  2. used to make a vacuum
  3. having a vacuum; partially or completely exhausted of air or gas
  4. working by suction or the creation of a partial vacuum

transitive verb, intransitive verb

to clean with a vacuum cleaner
in full vacuum-clean

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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