tidy
/ˈtaɪ.di/ verb A2- To make tidy; to neaten.
He/she/it tidies · Past tidied · Past participle tidied · -ing form tidying
Verb forms
- Base form
- tidy
- He/she/it
- tidies
- Past
- tidied
- Past participle
- tidied
- -ing form
- tidying
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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O IT'S I that am the captain of a tidy little ship,
By this time she had found her way into a tidy little room with a table in the window, and on it (as she had hoped) a fan and two or three pairs of tiny white kid gloves: she took up the fan and a pair of the gloves, and was just going to leave the room, when her eye fell upon a little bottle that stood near the looking-glass.
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