"tidy up" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: tidies up [present, singular, third-person], tidying up [participle, present], tidied up [participle, past], tidied up [past]
Head templates: {{en-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. Synonyms: tidy-up Translations (to make clean (a small room or small space)): մաքրել (makʿrel) (Armenian), endreçar (Catalan), 收拾 (shōushí) (Chinese Mandarin), siistiä (Finnish), ranger (French), arrombar (Galician), aufräumen (German), साफ़ करना (sāf karnā) (Hindi), riordinare (Italian), 片付ける (katazukeru) (alt: かたづける) (Japanese), 정리하다 (jeongnihada) (Korean), whakapaipai (Maori), مرتب کردن (Persian), sprzątać [imperfective] (Polish), posprzątać [perfective] (Polish), arrumar (Portuguese), face ordine (Romanian), deretica (Romanian), aranja (Romanian), убира́ть (ubirátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), убра́ть (ubrátʹ) [perfective] (Russian), приводи́ть в поря́док (privodítʹ v porjádok) [imperfective] (Russian), привести́ в поря́док (privestí v porjádok) [perfective] (Russian), поспремити [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), почистити [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), pospremiti [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), počistiti [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), arreglar (Spanish), adecentar (Spanish), çekidüzen vermek (Turkish), прибира́ти (prybyráty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), прибра́ти (prybráty) [perfective] (Ukrainian), dọn dẹp (Vietnamese)

Inflected forms

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          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
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          "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
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          "roman": "jeongnihada",
          "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
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          "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
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          "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
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          "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
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          "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
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          "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
          "word": "arreglar"
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
          "word": "adecentar"
        },
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          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
          "word": "çekidüzen vermek"
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          "lang": "Ukrainian",
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          "roman": "prybráty",
          "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "прибра́ти"
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          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
          "word": "dọn dẹp"
        }
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}
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      "word": "մաքրել"
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      "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
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      "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
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      "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
      "word": "siistiä"
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      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
      "word": "ranger"
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      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
      "word": "arrombar"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
      "word": "aufräumen"
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      "roman": "sāf karnā",
      "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
      "word": "साफ़ करना"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
      "word": "riordinare"
    },
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      "code": "ja",
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      "roman": "katazukeru",
      "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
      "word": "片付ける"
    },
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      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "jeongnihada",
      "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
      "word": "정리하다"
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      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
      "word": "whakapaipai"
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      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
      "word": "مرتب کردن"
    },
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
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      "word": "sprzątać"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "posprzątać"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
      "word": "arrumar"
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
      "word": "face ordine"
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    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
      "word": "deretica"
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      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
      "word": "aranja"
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      "roman": "ubirátʹ",
      "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "убира́ть"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ubrátʹ",
      "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
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      "word": "убра́ть"
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    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "privodítʹ v porjádok",
      "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "приводи́ть в поря́док"
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    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "privestí v porjádok",
      "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
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        "perfective"
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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
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        "Cyrillic"
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    },
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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
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        "Roman"
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      "word": "pospremiti"
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    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
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      "word": "počistiti"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
      "word": "arreglar"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
      "word": "adecentar"
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
      "word": "çekidüzen vermek"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "prybyráty",
      "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
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      "word": "прибира́ти"
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    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "prybráty",
      "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
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      "word": "прибра́ти"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "to make clean (a small room or small space)",
      "word": "dọn dẹp"
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}

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