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   spruce

   /spro͞os/

   adjective

   • 1. neat in dress and appearance: "he looked as spruce as if he were getting married"

   verb

   • 1. make a person or place smarter or tidier: "the fund will be used to spruce up historic buildings" Similar smarten upmake smartertidy upmake tidymake neaterneaten upput in orderclean upinformal:do uptart upposh upgussy upgroom oneselftidy oneselfsmarten oneself upfreshen oneself uppreen oneselfprimp oneselfprink oneselfpretty oneselfbeautify oneselfhave a wash and brush-upinformal:titivate oneselfdoll oneself uptart oneself uparchaic:plume oneselftrig oneself

   Word Origin late 16th century: perhaps from spruce1 in the obsolete sense ‘Prussian’, in the phrase spruce (leather) jerkin.

   Derivatives

   • 1. sprucely adverb
   • 2. spruceness noun

   Scrabble Points: 10

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