limpieza

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cleaning

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limpieza
feminine noun
1cleanliness (cualidad)
  • limpieza de sangre (history) -> racial purity
2cleaning (acción)
  • hacer la limpieza -> to do the cleaning
  • limpieza en seco -> dry-cleaning
  • limpieza étnica -> ethnic cleansing
3skill, cleanness (destreza)

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limpieza [lim-pe-ay’-thah]
noun
1Cleanness (estado), cleanliness, neatness, purity, limpidness. (f)
2Chastity, purity of morals. (f)
3Integrity, rectitude; disinterestedness (cualidad). (f)
4Purity of blood. (f)
  • Limpieza de bolsa -> emptiness of the purse
  • Limpieza en seco -> dry-cleaning

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limpieza
sustantivo:femenino
1 (acción) cleaning
la mujer señora de la limpiezao the cleaning lady; hacer la limpieza to do the cleaning
yo hago la limpieza y tú paseas al perro
limpieza en seco dry cleaning
limpieza general spring cleaning
2 (Política) purge; (Mil) mopping-up; (Policía) clean-up
limpieza étnica ethnic cleansing
3 (estado) cleanness
limpieza de sangre racial purity
4
con limpieza (con integridad) fair and square; nos ha ganado con limpieza he beat us fair and square
5 (destreza) skill
hace las jugadas con mucha limpieza he makes the moves with great skill; he makes the moves very neatly

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