Clean up and Spill

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Clean up verb - To make a place neat and orderly by removing extraneous stuff.

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Spill is an antonym for clean up.

Spill verb - To make known (as information previously kept secret).

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Clean up is an antonym for spill in topics: slop, reveal.

The Big Shell, an offshore facility built to clean up the oil spill caused by Snake's "eco-terrorism", has been seized by a terrorist group called the Sons of Liberty.

Source: Video Game / Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty aka: Metal Gear Solid 2
One cut-away later, Lex nonchalantly tells his chauffeur to have maintenance clean up a "spill" on the carpet: a small red glob one can only assume is the man's remains.

Source: Have You Told Anyone Else?
Please keep this index tidy, and use these antiseptic wipes to clean up if you spill anything.

Source: Cleanliness Tropes

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