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Tidying

Tidy \Ti"dy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tidied; p. pr. & vb. n. Tidying.] To put in proper order; to make neat; as, to tidy a room; to tidy one's dress.

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tidying

n. The act or process in which things are tidy. vb. (present participle of tidy English)

Usage examples of "tidying".

I groped behind my head, tidying my hair and taking the opportunity to turn away a little, to avoid his eye.

I set about tidying my tray, setting the syringe to soak in alcohol, corking bottles, folding bandages.

She was outside, went out on her own While I was upstairs tidying rooms.

Brianna moistened her lips, kept her hands busy with tidying the breakfast dishes.

The oldsters were setting the dinner tables, tidying the great Hall and chattering away as if they hadn't met for Turns instead of only that morning.

He kept darting glances to the Hall and around the courtyard where the genuine apprentices were sweeping the cobbles and tidying up in the Hall.

He moved about the room briefly, making perfunctory tidying motions as he shifted a few books and scrolls to free a chair for me, and then vanished again.

Evidently he had been assuring her that he had been personally seeing to the tidying and laundering in an effort to keep the King from being disturbed.

Instead, there was a young woman, ostensibly tidying the chamber, but almost certainly spying for Regal.

I pushed it off my forehead, tidying it as best I could without a ,,Ilrror.