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spruce

• (s) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
  • a dapper young man
  • a jaunty red hat
  dapper, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, dashing, snappy,

Nouns

• (n) light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork
• (n) any coniferous tree of the genus Picea

Verbs

• (v) make neat, smart, or trim
  • Spruce up your house for Spring
  • titivate the child
  slick up, smarten up, spiff up, spruce up, titivate, tittivate,
• (v) dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion
  • He spruced up for the party
  slick up, smarten up, spruce up,

Synonyms

slick up smarten up spiff up spruce up titivate tittivate dapper jaunty natty raffish rakish spiffy dashing snappy

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