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11spruce up — (someone/something) to improve the appearance of someone or something. She needed to spruce up her image so she bought tons of new clothes and got a great new hairstyle. The city has to spruce itself up for the Olympics next year …
12spruce — spruce; spruce·ly; spruce·ness; …
13Spruce — (engl., spr. Spruhs), 1) die Pechtanne; 2) so v.w. Sprossenbier; 3) Terpentinsaft aus jungen Fichtensprossen u. Tannenzapfen …
14spruce up — index embellish Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
15sprucė — ×sprucė (nlt.) sf. N, [K(B)] kamštis, kištukas …
16spruce — [adj] stylish, neat classy, clean, dainty, dapper, elegant, prim, smart, tidy, trim, wellgroomed; concept 589 Ant. unkempt, unstylish, untidy …
17spruce up — [v] make neat, well groomed brush, deck out*, dress up, fix up, groom, prim, primp, sleek, slick, smarten, tidy, titivate, wash; concepts 162,167,202 Ant. dirty, mess up …
18Spruce — For other uses, see Spruce (disambiguation). Spruce Norway Spruce (Picea abies) Scientific classification Kingdom …
19spruce — spruce1 /sproohs/, n. 1. any evergreen, coniferous tree of the genus Picea, of the pine family, having short, angular, needle shaped leaves attached singly around twigs and bearing hanging cones with persistent scales. 2. any of various allied… …
20spruce 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 …
