spruce (verb)

  • 1spruce up — verb 1. make neat, smart, or trim Spruce up your house for Spring titivate the child • Syn: ↑spruce, ↑titivate, ↑tittivate, ↑smarten up, ↑slick up, ↑spiff up …

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  • 2spruce — Ⅰ. spruce [1] ► ADJECTIVE ▪ neat and smart. ► VERB (spruce up) ▪ make smarter. ORIGIN perhaps from SPRUCE(Cf. ↑spruce) in the obsolete sense Prussian , in the phrase spruce leather jerkin. Ⅱ …

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  • 3spruce up — verb a) To dress or arrange smartly, elegantly, and neatly Fresh paint and some new curtains would do a lot to spruce up this dark room. b) To refresh, revamp; to freshen …

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  • 4spruce — I. verb (spruced; sprucing) Date: 1594 transitive verb to make spruce often used with up intransitive verb to make oneself spruce < spruce up a bit > II. adjective (sprucer; spruces …

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  • 5spruce — spruce1 [ sprus ] noun count spruce or spruce tree a tall tree that has thin sharp leaves that do not fall off in winter and produces hard brown fruits called cones a. uncount the wood of a spruce spruce spruce 2 [ sprus ] verb ,spruce up phrasal …

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  • 6spruce — 1 noun (C, U) a tree that grows in northern countries and has short leaves shaped like needles 2 verb spruce up phrasal verb (I, T) informal to make yourself or something look neater and tidier: I ll just go upstairs and spruce up a bit before&#8230; …

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  • 7spruce´ness — spruce1 «sproos», noun. 1. any one of a group of evergreen trees with cones and with needle shaped leaves arranged spirally around the branches. The spruce belongs to the pine family. It is often used as a Christmas tree in America. 2. any one of …

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  • 8spruce´ly — spruce1 «sproos», noun. 1. any one of a group of evergreen trees with cones and with needle shaped leaves arranged spirally around the branches. The spruce belongs to the pine family. It is often used as a Christmas tree in America. 2. any one of …

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  • 9spruce — I UK [spruːs] / US [sprus] noun [countable] Word forms spruce : singular spruce plural spruce spruce or spruce tree a) a tall tree that has thin sharp leaves that do not fall off in winter and produces hard brown fruits called cones b)&#8230; …

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  • 10spruce — 1. noun a) Any of various large coniferous evergreen trees from the genus Picea, found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully spruce fir. b) The wood of a spruce. 2. adjective a) Made of the wood of the spruce …

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