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clean off

verb as in wipe

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Phone video shot by those on the ground in the aftermath of a grenade attack outside Pokrovsk shows its utter destruction, the paint had been burned clean off, most of the exterior destroyed, the inside was incinerated, but thankfully nobody was hurt as it went up in flames.

From BBC

It only got worse when I inadvertently knocked my remaining balls clean off the top of my drink, leaving them to sit sadly in the aisle until an attendant swept them away at some point over the next three hours in change.

From Salon

Now that most of the paint is gone, spray the chair with denatured alcohol and scrub with more steel wool to clean off any residue.

“I don’t know what you’re thinking. He probably braked deeper than he did in qualifying right there, and he runs me clean off the track. You’ve got to be smarter than that, man. So, so dumb.”

Beniers, new linemate Eeli Tolvanen and company proceeded to scald the feathers clean off the Ducks in a 4-0 win in which they scored more goals by the middle period than in their prior three games combined.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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