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Verb: spruce up
  1. Make neat, smart, or trim
    "Spruce up your house for Spring";
    - spruce, titivate, tittivate [rare], smarten up, slick up [N. Amer], spiff up [N. Amer, informal], smarten
     
  2. Dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion
    "He spruced up for the party";
    - spruce, slick up [N. Amer], smarten up, smarten

Derived forms: sprucing up, spruces up, spruced up

Type of: beautify, fancify, groom, neaten, prettify