tidy up

See also: tidy-up

English

Alternative forms

• 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.
   • 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 7:

     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.

Usage notes

• Usually used to describe the straightening-out of a small room or small space.

Translations

to make clean (a small room or small space)

• Armenian: մաքրել (hy) (makʻrel)
• Catalan: endreçar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 收拾 (zh) (shōushí)

• Finnish: siistiä (fi)
• French: ranger (fr)
• Galician: arrombar
• German: aufräumen (de), zusammenräumen (de)
• Hindi: साफ़ करना (sāf karnā)
• Italian: riordinare (it)
• Japanese: 片付ける (ja) (かたづける, katazukeru)
• Korean: 정리하다 (ko) (jeongnihada)
• Maori: whakapaipai
• Persian: مرتب کردن (fa)
• Polish: sprzątać (pl) impf, posprzątać (pl) pf
• Portuguese: arrumar (pt)
• Romanian: face ordine, deretica (ro), aranja (ro)
• Russian: убира́ть (ru) impf (ubirátʹ), убра́ть (ru) pf (ubrátʹ), приводи́ть в поря́док impf (privodítʹ v porjádok), привести́ в поря́док pf (privestí v porjádok)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: поспремити, почистити

  Roman: pospremiti (sh), počistiti (sh)

• Spanish: arreglar (es), adecentar (es)
• Turkish: çekidüzen vermek (tr), toplamak (tr)
• Ukrainian: прибира́ти impf (prybyráty), прибра́ти pf (prybráty)
• Vietnamese: dọn dẹp (vi)