tidy something away

Examples of tidying

tidying

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

This book is a welcome contribution to historiographical tidying up and to conceptual clarity.
It is important to note that this reform goes well beyond any ' tidying up' of to the public sector.
Editing and proofreading are necessary tasks, like tidying up the living room before the guests arrive.
Finally, it had the general purpose of tidying up the physical landscape in which the polite lived.
Like housework, it is a tidying process that is only visible in its absence.
Tidying up the language was a means of homogenizing the people, placing symbolic boundaries on them and their behaviour, and signalling the limits of order.
The grammatical system will go on tidying itself up in small ways.
First, there is a good deal of tidying up to do.
However, one day when the disorders have all been studied and the tidying up done, the vein will start to run out.
Children reported making beds, tidying rooms, washing up, vacuuming, making breakfasts, cleaning cars, feeding and 'looking after' pets and tidying the home generally.
Suppose that we want to "clean up" a sequence of persons by processing the string of each name, email, or tel by a corresponding tidying function.
The tennis courts have already been removed and the work of tidying this area is now going on.
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