Clean up and Destroy

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Clean up

Clean up verb - To make a place neat and orderly by removing extraneous stuff.
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Destroy is an antonym for clean up in topics: fix, correct, earn, resolve, spruce up.

Destroy

Destroy verb - To bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of.
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Clean up is an antonym for destroy.
Nearby Words: destroyed, destroyer, destroying
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  • Gaia's Vengeance Although the Ohmu were found to be Gaia's creation to help clean up the earth, not to destroy humanity.
    Source: Gaia's Vengeance
  • Series / Charmed Knight Templar: Witch Doctors, it's their job to clean up residual evil energies but they'll destroy good beings if they are a threat to the magical community.
    Source: Series / Charmed
  • Better Manhandle the Murder Weapon They are finally able to clean up the scene of the incriminating evidence but in the process pretty much destroy all the real evidence.
    Source: Better Manhandle the Murder Weapon
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