clean out

verb

1. foll byof or from to remove (something) (from or away from)
2. slang.
   to leave (someone) with no money

   gambling had cleaned him out

3. informal.
   to exhaust (stocks, goods, etc) completely

Example Sentences

The American presenter, 50, who is in the UK filming season two of Adam Richman Eats Britain, wrote on X their van full of filming equipment was "completely cleaned out" in less than five minutes.

From BBC

I love a Sunday night putter: cleaning out a drawer in my bathroom or giving myself a manicure, because I never go and get them.

From Los Angeles Times

She pulled out a large Tupperware box she had stored in her garage in Rancho Mirage after she and her sister, Lora Parrish, had cleaned out their mother’s home two years ago.

From Los Angeles Times

Just as Wood had him tag along to clean out his “Daily Show” office, his son came to his first day at CNN and helped him start his new chapter.

From Salon

In his own Agenda 47, Trump promises he "will clean out all of the corrupt actors in our National Security and Intelligence apparatus, and there are plenty of them."

From Salon

Related Words

• bankrupt
• crush
• decimate
• demolish
• deplete
• exhaust
• impoverish
• injure
• mar
• overwhelm
• raze
• shatter
• spoil
• wipe out
• wrack
• wreck