CLEANED (OUT) Synonyms: 14 Similar Words | Merriam-Webster Thesaurus

cleaned (out)

verb

past tense of clean (out)

as in defrauded

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Two men, one of whom posed as a player for the San Francisco 49ers, have been arrested and charged in a scheme that allegedly defrauded more than two dozen women out of more than $1 million, federal authorities said.

— Tim Fang, CBS News, 27 Aug. 2026
Operation Riptide was launched in June to combat cybercrime, which defrauded Americans out of more than $20 billion last year, according to the FBI.

— Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of defrauded

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When Zayn lost the WWE title to Punk less than two weeks after winning it, there was a lot of chatter that he had been shortchanged and would never get a crack at the WWE title again.

— Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
One side tends to feel shortchanged, and the other two have to decide whether to kick in more value to save the deal.

— Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 23 July 2026

Definition of shortchanged

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The tribe led efforts to restore Prairie Creek, which had been largely denuded and buried by the timber operation.

— Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 28 July 2026
Against this show, college dorm room posters of melting clocks feel utterly denuded, with regrets to the angsty teens pinning them up.

— Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 17 July 2026

Definition of denuded

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