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What is the difference between clean up and clean ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between clean up and clean ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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Clean up is usually used when referring to a tangible mess, such as a child's room with toys strewn about or general clutter in a house.
Clean is used more to refer to the removal of dirt or filth.
All that being said, the two terms can often be used interchangeably.
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