spruce up
v 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]
2: dress and groom with particular care, as for a special
occasion; "He spruced up for the party" [syn: spruce, slick
up, smarten up]
WordNet (r) 2.0
83 Moby Thesaurus words for "spruce up":
adorn, array, beautify, bedeck, bedizen, blazon, brighten up,
brush up, clean up, clear the decks, clear up, color, dandify,
deck, deck out, decorate, dizen, doll up, dress, dress up,
embellish, emblazon, embroider, enrich, fancy up, fig out, fix,
fix up, freshen, furbish, furbish up, garnish, get up, grace,
groom, gussy up, neaten, ornament, overdress, paint, police,
police up, polish, polish up, prank, prank up, preen, prettify,
pretty up, primp, primp up, prink, prink up, put in trim, rag out,
redecorate, redo, refurbish, renovate, repair, retouch, revive,
rub up, set off, set out, shine, slick up, smarten, smarten up,
spruce, straighten up, tidy, tidy up, titivate, tone up, touch up,
trick out, trick up, trig up, trim, trim up, vamp, vamp up
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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