muck (sth) out
— phrasal verb with muck /mʌk/ verbDefinition
› to clean a place where a large animal lives, especially a stable, by removing the waste products and old straw: She'd spent all morning mucking out the horses.Cleaning and tidying places and things
(Definition of muck (sth) out from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- clean (sb/sth) up phrasal verb
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- dusting noun (CLEANING)
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