spruce up

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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
• Derivationally related forms:
tittivation (for: tittivate), titivation (for: titivate)
• Hypernyms:
fancify, beautify, embellish, prettify
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s somebody
- Something ----s something
2. dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion
- He spruced up for the party
• Syn:
spruce, slick up, smarten up
• Hypernyms:
groom, neaten
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s somebody