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Word entry · 6 letters

vacuum

Best crossword clue

"Cleaning machine"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈvæ.kjuːm/Part of speech verb, nounSorted acmuuvStarts with VEnds with M1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. clean with a vacuum cleaner

Word origin

Borrowed from New Latin vacuum (“vacuum”), a subsense of Classical Latin vacuum (“empty space”), a substantivised form of vacuus (“empty”); related to vacāre (“to be empty”).

Used in a sentence

  • a vacuum of 26 inches of mercury, or 13 pounds per square inch
  • Henrietta soon found a terrible vacuum left, by the letters in which she used to pour forth every feeling and thought to her uncle.
  • Abs show up in a most-muscular shot, a vacuum shot, the hands-behind-head compulsory ab shot, twisting poses, and so on.

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