Meaning

3 senses

  1. (transitive)To make smarter in appearance; to refurbish or spruce up.

  2. (transitive)To increase the speed of (one's travel on foot, etc.).

  3. (transitive)To augment with computer technology.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Smarten up and stop making dumb plans.

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Origin

From smart + -en.

From smart + -en.

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Forms

smartens, smartening, smartened, smartened
Base formsmarten · to smarten
3rd person singularsmartens
Present participlesmartening
Past simplesmartened
Past participlesmartened

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysmarten
he, she, itsmartens

Past simpleLesson

all personssmartened

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave smartened
he, she, ithas smartened

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill smarten

Synonyms

1 synonyms
computerizeC2

Word family

1 related words
Derivedsmarten up

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
smarmysmartA1smartlysmartphonesmartysmashB2
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