tidy up
tidy up verb: to make clean, to make satisfactorily neat.
Verb
tidy up (third-person singular simple present tidies up, present participle tidying up, simple past and past participle tidied up)
- 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
tidy up meaning in Hindi and Tamil
tidy up in Hindi
- to tidy up
- साफ़ करना sāf karnā
tidy up in Tamil
- ஒழி
Forms of tidy up
| third-person singular present | tidies up |
|---|---|
| present participle | tidying up |
| past participle | tidied up |
| past | tidied up |
| alternative form | tidy-up |
Questions about tidy up
- What does tidy up mean?
- Tidy up means to make clean, to make satisfactorily neat.
- What is tidy up in Hindi?
- Tidy up in Hindi is साफ़ करना (sāf karnā). See Tidy up meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is tidy up?
- Tidy up is a verb.
- What is the past tense of tidy up?
- The past tense of tidy up is tidied up.
Words near tidy up in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: tidy up (page history and authors); साफ़ करना (Hindi) (page history and authors); tidy up (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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