tidy up

Speech parts

1. tidy up - Noun

2. tidy up - Verb

Meaning

put (things or places) in order

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

tidy-up

Synonyms

straighten tidy clean up straighten out neaten square away wash order clear remove sort vacuum dust clean settle
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Antonyms

disorder chaos dirty disrupt confuse mess
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Hypernyms

order

Hyponyms

make clean make-up clean house houseclean

Examples

There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge. Boris Johnson

After every war someone has to tidy up. Things won't pick themselves up, after all.Someone has to shove the rubble to the roadsides so the carts loaded with corpses can get by. Wisława Szymborska

After every war someone has to tidy up. Wisława Szymborska

I really have to force myself to tidy up around the house. Marcia Cross

I'd like to tidy up the entire planet. I would go anywhere if there were something that needs tidying. Marie Kondo

I'm not a suffragette... Women, as a rule, tend to tidy up pictures that don't need tidying up. How many good women artists are there? Helen Frankenthaler

Close letter words and terms

tidy stables tidy tips tidy towel tidy whities tidying tidying away