clean house vs clean up

clean house and clean up both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
clean house	No	No	Yes	No
clean up	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, clean up is a hypernym of clean house; that is, clean up is a word with a broader meaning than clean house:

Other hypernyms of clean house include neaten, square away, straighten, straighten out, tidy, tidy up.

clean house (verb)	clean up (verb)
clean and tidy up the house	make oneself clean, presentable or neat
	put (things or places) in order
	finish attending to
	make a big profit; often in a short period of time