Meaning

2 senses

  1. (idiomatic)To dress or arrange smartly, elegantly, and neatly; to smarten.

    прихора́шиватьсяprixorášivatʹsja

  2. (idiomatic)To refresh, revamp; to freshen or improve something, especially its appearance.

    Fresh paint and some new curtains would do a lot to spruce up this dark room.

More definitions
  • dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion
  • make neat, smart, or trim

Examples

2 sentences

  1. I used those flowers to spruce up the house.

    deMit den Blumen habe ich das Haus herausgeputzt. — Yorwba

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  2. I'll tidy the flat and spruce things up a bit.

    deIch werde die Wohnung aufräumen und alles ein bisschen auf Vordermann bringen. — raggione

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Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to dress smartly, elegantly:

Forms

spruces up, sprucing up, spruced up, spruced up
Base formspruce up · to spruce up
3rd person singularspruces up
Present participlesprucing up
Past simplespruced up
Past participlespruced up

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyspruce up
he, she, itspruces up

Past simpleLesson

all personsspruced up

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave spruced up
he, she, ithas spruced up

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill spruce up

Synonyms

8 synonyms
spiff upsprucen uptart uptitivate
Close in meaning

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
sproutC1sprucespryspudspurB2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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