Clean
Clean verb - To remove the dirt from.
Hunt
Hunt verb - To seek out (game) for food or sport.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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In an episode of Zigby (a preschool-age series broadcast in Canada and Australia, but also available on DVD, about a zebra), Zigby stages a scavenger hunt to help people clean up.
Source: Snipe Hunt -
The Night Gallery episode "Clean Kills and Other Trophies" centers around an aging, arrogant trophy hunter who bullies his soft-hearted son into participating in a deer hunt.
Source: Egomaniac Hunter -
But it is their treatment of half-elfs ('errants') that is most telling: they made a huge mess of things when they first encountered humans, then after this led to a bloody civil war, refused to do anything to clean up the mess except ruthlessly hunt down and kill their own hybrid descendants.
Source: Our Elves Are Better
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Hunt and Clean. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/clean/hunt
Clean & Hunt. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/clean/hunt>.
Hunt or Clean. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/clean/hunt.
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