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SQUARE AWAY
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Put (things or places) in order
Example:
Tidy up your room!
Synonyms:
clean up; neaten; square away; straighten; straighten out; tidy; tidy up
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "square away" is one way to...):
order (bring order to or into)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "square away"):
make; make up (put in order or neaten)
clean; clean house; houseclean (clean and tidy up the house)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
