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clean up

vb. (context transitive English) To make an area or a thing clean; to pick up a mess; to tidy.

WordNet
clean up
  1. v. put (things or places) in order; "Tidy up your room!" [syn: tidy, tidy up, neaten, straighten, straighten out, square away]

  2. make a big profit; often in a short period of time; "The investor really cleaned up when the stock market went up"

  3. dispose of; "settle the bills"

  4. make oneself clean, presentable or neat; "Clean up before you go to the party"

Usage examples of "clean up".

Then, today, while I was trying to clean up a little (mostly I'm too exhausted and dispirited to even try), I broke my mother's favorite plate, the one with the Currier & Ives sledding scene on it.

Cawti was off seeing her old friend Kelly and his merry band of nut cases and I had returned to running my business and trying to clean up South Adrilankha without filing Surrender of Debts to the Empire.