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tidy up en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. To make clean, to make satisfactorily neat.
    • When the long, hot journey drew to its end and the train slowed down for the last time, there was a stir in Jessamy’s carriage. People began to shake crumbs from their laps and tidy themselves up a little. 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 7:

Forms

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tidy-up alternative lexicographic
tidies up Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
tidied up Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
tidied up Tense=Past lexicographic
tidying up Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic