Definition of "tidy up" []

• To make clean. In particular to make satisfactorily clean. Usually used to describe the cleaning of a small room or small space. (verb)

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• "When Cleopatra’s three living children embarked for Rome in the care of the freedman Gaius Julius Admetus, they sailed alone; like Divus Julius when he had left Egypt, Octavian decided he may as well tidy up Syrian Asia and Anatolia before returning to Rome."
• "He stripped back the sheet as far as the body's waist, showing the dark discolorations of decomposition and the efforts made to tidy up the radical post mortem incisions."