Meaning

2 senses

  1. (usually, with up)To arrange neatly; tidy up.

  2. (ambitransitive, usually, with up)To make oneself spruce (neat and elegant in appearance).

Origin

From spruce + -en.

From spruce + -en.

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Forms

sprucens, sprucening, sprucened, sprucened
Base formsprucen · to sprucen
3rd person singularsprucens
Present participlesprucening
Past simplesprucened
Past participlesprucened

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysprucen
he, she, itsprucens

Past simpleLesson

all personssprucened

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill sprucen

Word family

1 related words
Derivedsprucen up

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
sproutC1sprucespryspudspurB2
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