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[ UK /nˈiːtən/ ]
VERB
  1. care for one's external appearance
    He is always well-groomed
  2. put (things or places) in order
    Tidy up your room!

How To Use neaten In A Sentence

  • Neaten outer edge of bias strip or turn under raw edge.
  • He sank down into a chair in front of the uneaten breakfast I had made for Nicola and suddenly his eyes were wild and despairing. A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
  • Neaten, archive and manage the channels cooperation agreement.
  • I was neatening a table of books when they walked by, Laura was giving him a tour.
  • Only the live prawn went uneaten and most of the sea urchin, which is a more complicated story. The Guardian World News
  • 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. China's Way Forward
  • Remove uneaten fruit and vegetables from the housing daily.
  • Whether you're cooking at home or in a restaurant, there's nothing more depressing and demotivating for a cook than to see plates of uneaten food coming back into the kitchen.
  • The parley, so far as Raoul was concerned, proved fruitless, and he went back into his own lines convinced that the men on the Big Rock could hold out for years, though he would have been swiftly unconvinced could he have observed Tehaa and the Raiateans, the moment his back was turned and he was out of sight, crawling over the rocks and sucking and crunching the scraps his dog had left uneaten. THE DEVILS OF FUATINO
  • Which is the way of the dog, the only animal that will cheerfully and gladly, with leaping body of joy, leave its food uneaten in order to accompany or to serve its human master. CHAPTER V
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