TIDY UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tidy up mean? 

• TIDY UP (verb)
  The verb TIDY UP has 1 sense:

1. put (things or places) in order

  Familiarity information: TIDY UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TIDY UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put (things or places) in order

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

clean up; neaten; square away; straighten; straighten out; tidy; tidy up

Context example:

Tidy up your room!

Hypernyms (to "tidy up" is one way to...):

order (bring order to or into)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "tidy up"):

make; make up (put in order or neaten)

clean; clean house; houseclean (clean and tidy up the house)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

"Oh, very well," he said; "let her come in, by all means; but just wait a minute till I tidy up the place."

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

This morning, as the man was buried and the investigation over—so far as this room is concerned—we thought we could tidy up a bit.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Laurie was in a flutter of excitement at the idea of having company, and flew about to get ready, for as Mrs. March said, he was 'a little gentleman', and did honor to the coming guest by brushing his curly pate, putting on a fresh color, and trying to tidy up the room, which in spite of half a dozen servants, was anything but neat.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)