Clean vs Incorrupt - What's the difference?

Clean is a related term of incorrupt.

As adjectives the difference between clean and incorrupt

is that clean is free of dirt or impurities or protruberances while incorrupt is not corrupt, void of moral corruption.

As a noun clean

is removal of dirt.

As a verb clean

is to remove dirt from a place or object.

As an adverb clean

is fully and completely.

clean

English

(wikipedia clean)

Adjective

(er)

Free of dirt or impurities or protruberances.

#Not dirty.

#*:Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefully furnished, and was very clean . ¶ There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.

#In an unmarked condition.

#(lb) Allowing an uninterrupted flow over surfaces, without protrusions such as racks or landing gear.

#Empty.

#(lb) Having relatively few impurities.

Free of immorality or criminality.

#Pure, especially morally or religiously.

#*(Bible), (Psalms) li.10:

#*:Create in me a clean heart, O God.

#* (1809-1892)

#*:That I am whole, and clean , and meet for Heaven.

#Not having used drugs or alcohol.

# Without restrictions or penalties, or someone having such a record.

#(lb) Not in possession of weapons or contraband such as drugs.

Smooth, exact, and performed well.

(lb) Cool or neat.

(lb) Being free of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).

Which doesn’t .

Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects.

Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.

*(Bible), (w) xxiii.22:

*:When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of corners of thy field.

Well-proportioned; shapely.

Ascended without falling.

Synonyms

* (not dirty) * (empty)

Antonyms

* dirty * unclean

Derived terms

* clean as a hound's tooth * * clean sheet * clean sweep * cleanliness * cleanly * come clean * lick clean * unclean

Noun

(en noun)

Removal of dirt.

This place needs a clean .

(weightlifting) The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders.

Verb

(en verb)

To remove dirt from a place or object.

Can you clean the windows today?

To tidy up, make a place neat.

Clean your room right now!

(climbing) To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.

To make things clean in general.

She just likes to clean . That’s why I married her.

(curling) To brush the ice lightly in front of a moving rock to remove any debris and ensure a correct line; less vigorous than a sweep.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* clean someone’s clock * clean out * clean up * cleaner * houseclean

Adverb

(er)

Fully and completely.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.}}

Anagrams

* English transitive verbs 1000 English basic words ----

incorrupt

English

Adjective

(-)

not corrupt, void of moral corruption

* {{quote-book, year=1850, author=Isaac Disraeli, title=Literary Character of Men of Genius, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=He slighted the plaudits of their theatre, he abhorred their dances and their horse-races, he was abstinent even at a festival, and incorrupt himself, perpetually admonished the dissipated citizens of their impious abandonment of the laws of their country. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1876, author=William Wordsworth, title=The Prose Works of William Wordsworth, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The courts of British justice are impartial and incorrupt ; they respect not the persons of men; the poor man's lamb is, in their estimation, as sacred as the monarch's crown; with inflexible integrity they adjudge to every man his own. }}

* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=September 6, author=Haroon Siddiqui, title=Toronto terror conviction and the war on terror in Afghanistan, work=Toronto Star citation

, passage=His, and NATO's, hopes of an incorrupt and credible government has been dealt a blow with the fraud-laden presidential election and Hamid Karzai's political alliances with warlords, war criminals and drug dealers. }}

free from physical decay

* {{quote-book, year=1895, author=Alban Butler, title=The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=His body was found incorrupt in 1063, and placed in a monument on the side of the high altar: and in 1170 it was enshrined in a silver case. }}

Derived terms

* incorruptness