clean sth out
— Phrasal Verb with clean /kliːn/ verb [I, T]Definition
CLEAN › to take everything out of a room, car, container, etc and clean the inside of it
STEAL informal › to steal everything from a place: Her apartment had been cleaned out by burglars.
(Definition of clean sth out from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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