neaten

IPA: nˈitʌn

verb

  • (transitive) To make (someone or something) neat; to arrange (people or things) in an orderly, tidy way; to tidy.
  • (intransitive) To engage in activity that arranges someone or something in an orderly, tidy way.
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Examples of "neaten" in Sentences

  • Carefully trim the overhanging pastry to neaten.6.
  • It's time to neaten up and reconsider the good old-fashioned blanket
  • Still, given the tall grass in his yard, the goat company returned with a scythe to neaten up.
  • There is no need to clutter the entire home with a sewing project, if you neaten and clean as you sew.
  • When told of her husband's efforts to neaten the home that day, Ms. Leight laughed, then said he's actually loosened up over the years.
  • For projects with no hope of making the deadline, workers toiled instead to put up screening walls, or to neaten the piles of I-beams and rebar that normally littered the sites.

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