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UK
/tˈɪtɪvˌeɪt/
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VERB
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make neat, smart, or trim
Spruce up your house for Spring
titivate the child
How To Use titivate In A Sentence
- Wigs for the dolls are imported ready styled, but of course they can be titivated to suit and the long wigs can be plaited.
- The word titivate apparently was derived from tidy with a quasi-Latin suffix added. Word Fugitives
- This floral extravaganza, splashed across the green canvas of a meadow, has been shaped and coloured, magnified and titivated by the past choices made by animal eyes: bee eyes, butterfly eyes, hoverfly eyes. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
- Then on the Saturday night I went to bed very early as I knew realistically I needed to get up at 6am to allow time to titivate myself to get down to Selfridges on time.
- It was nice to get home in the daylight, and have time to titivate the garden before tea.
- titivate the child
- The short-trousered one has, in a glittering foreign service career so far, angered India, gravely insulted the Poles and apparently sexually titivated the wife of Bill Clinton, another man with banana syndrome. barbara Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
- Eventually it would have notes, photos, and cards wedged into its frame to keep me company while I titivated myself before the show.
- If we're recovering furniture, go for a sensible (no, it's not a dirty word) hard-wearing fabric and titivate the look with cushions.
- If we're recovering furniture, go for a sensible (no, it's not a dirty word) hard-wearing fabric and titivate the look with cushions.