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tidies up

tidies up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tidy up.

Meaning of tidy up

Verb

tidy up (third-person singular simple present tidies up, present participle tidying up, simple past and past participle tidied up)

  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

Questions about tidies up

What is tidies up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Tidies up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tidy up.

Words near tidies up in the dictionary

  1. tidied up
  2. tidier
  3. tidiers
  4. tidies
  5. tidies one's sock drawer
  6. tidies up
  7. tidiest
  8. tidifes
  9. tidily
  10. tidiness
  11. tidinesses

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