SMARTEN

Definition: SMARTEN

SMARTEN

Transitive verb

1. To make smart or spruce; -- usually with up.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SMARTEN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Note: Smarten \Smart"en\, transitive verb. To make smart or spruce; -- usually with up. [Colloq.]. (references)

Ornament

Smarten, furbish, polish, gild, varnish, whitewash, enamel, japan, lacquer, paint, grain.

Crosswords: SMARTEN

Dutch (afflict, cause pain, cause pain to, distress, give pain to).

Books

• Das Berner Oberland und seine Fotografen : von gleissenden Firnen, smarten Touristen und formvollendeten Kühen (reference)

• Smarten Up! Say It Right (reference)

• Smarten Up!: How to Increase Your Brain Power (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "SMARTEN": smarten up. Additional references.

Albanian

zbukurohem (grow beautiful, titivate), ujdisem (come to an understanding, dress up), bëhem më elegant. (various references)

Arabic 

‏تأنق (doll up, dude oneself up, elegance, flourish, mannerism, preen, spruce, spruce oneself, stylishness, swank, titivate, titivation), ‏سرع (accelerate, career, chase, fast, force, get a move on, gun, hasten, hurry up, hustle, lollop, pelt, pounce, push, quicken, rush, speed, speed up, step on it, throttle, trot), ‏زين (apparel, bedeck, deck, dress, enhance, figure, gem, grace, hang, invest, ornament, paint, pattern, pipe, plate, prettify, prink, trick, trim, varnish), ‏عنف (blow up, check, chide, convulse, expostulate, fierceness, force, heating, impetuosity, rant, rebuke, roughness, rowdyism, rudeness, scold, thuggery, vehemence, violence, whip off), ‏جمل (beautify, bedeck, camel, conclude, embellish, enhance, finalize, garnish, improve, ornament, outline, precis, prettify, pretty, refine, sum up, summarize, totalize, varnish). (various references)

Bulgarian 

спретвам (snug), докарвам (account, bring, bring over, bring up, dress, dress up, drive, induce, land, lay, produce, reduce, return, send, set, work). (various references)

Czech

vyfintit (bedizen, smarten up, trick up), dát do pucu (smarten up). (various references)

French

s'accélérer, rendre pimpant, pomponner (do smb. up nicely), devenir plus élégant, bichonner. (various references)

German

herausputzen (array, deck out, dress up, spruce up). (various references)

Greek 

κάνω κομψό. (various references)

Hebrew 

ליפות (beautify, embellish, prettify), ללטש (grind, polish, refurbish, sharpen, whet), ל�"תיפות (preen), ל�'�"ץ (iron, press, smooth). (various references)

Hungarian

feldíszít (to adorn, to blazon, to caparison, to decorate, to dress out, to hang with bunting, to ornament, to rig up, to trim), felélénkít (animate, brisk, to animate, to brush up, to enliven, to jazz up, to pep, to tone up, to zing up). (various references)

Indonesian

mendandani (dress). (various references)

Italian

ravvivare (animate, brighten, enliven, liven, refresh, revitalise, revitalize, revive), farsi bello, abbellire (adorn, beautify, embellish, grace, posh up, prettify, prink). (various references)

Manx

jeshaghey (arrange, dress, grace, make up, service, tidy, toilet, trim), bioyraghey (activate, activation, animate, enlivenment, vitalize). (various references)

Pig Latin

artensmay.(various references)

Portuguese

dar vida a (liven, liven up, vivify), avivar (brighten, bring back, brisk, enliven, heighten, intensify, refresh, sharpen, stir, trim, warm), ativar (activate, arouse, awake, bestir, brisk, haste, hasten, jog, quicken, stimulate), animar (actuate, animate, assure, awake, awaken, brighten, brisk, calorify, cheer, cherish, chirk, comfort, embolden, encourage, enliven, ensoul, exhilarate, flush, ginger, grandmother, hearten, heat, incite, inspire, inspirit, jazz, jolly, kittle, liven, liven up, nerve, pep, perk, propel, rally, rouse, spirit, stimulate, uphold, vitalize, vivify, warm), acelerar (accelerate, expedite, haste, hasten, hurry, quicken, speed, speed up, urge). (various references)

Romanian

grãbi (accelerate, anticipate, bustle, expedite, force, forward, hasten, hurry, hustle, mend one's pace, precipitate, press, push, push on, quicken, rush, smarten up, speed, spur, wing), dichisi (adorn, arrange, dress up, smarten up, Spruce, trim), dezmorţi (chafe, revive, smarten up, take the chill off), accelera (accelerate, dispatch, expedite, force, forward, hasten, hurry, mend, precipitate, push, push on, quicken, smarten up, speed up, wing), înviora (engraft, enliven, exhilarate, fire, freshen, illuminate, invigorate, push, refresh, regenerate, smarten up), împodobi (adorn, array, beautify, bedeck, caparison, deck, deck out, decorate, drape, dress, embellish, encrust, feather, fig, fig out, fringe, garnish, gild, grace, hang with, ornament, pink, prank, robe, set, smarten up, trap, trim). (various references)

Russian 

вразумлять (make smb. listen to reason), приукрашивать (embellish, embroider, gloss over, pretty up, sugar coat), принаряжаться. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

nagizdati se, doterati (adjust, drive, furbish, lick into shape, nidge, polish, regulate, spruce, straighten out, touch up). (various references)

Spanish

mejorarse de aspecto (smarten up), hermosear (beautify, embellish, prettify, smarten up), arreglarse (adapt, come to terms, fend for oneself, freshen oneself up, freshen up, get along, get by, make out, make shift, manage, posh oneself up, preen, prim oneself up, shake down, smarten up, tidy, tidy up, titivate, trim up, work out), arreglar (accommodate, arrange, assort, do, doctor, dress, fix, fix up, frame, lay out, line up, mend, order, patch up, posh up, put in order, quadrate, regularize, regulate, rig up, set right, settle, sew up, smarten up, smooth, smooth out, sort, sort out, Square, stage, tell off, tidy, tidy out, tidy up, tie up, trim up). (various references)

Swedish

pigga upp (buck up, cheer up, enliven, exhilarate, jazz, jazz up, jolly, lighten, liven, pep up, stimulate), öka (add to, augment, compound, enhance, extend, gain, grow, heighten, increase, inflame, inflate, intensify, put on, redouble, supplement). (various references)

Thai

ทำให้ฉลา�". (various references)

Turkish

sağını solunu toplamak (smarten up), süslemek (adorn, array, beautify, bedeck, bedight, caparison, crown, damask, deck out, decorate, dike, dizen, doll out, doll up, dress, dress up, embellish, embroider, enamel, enrich, fancy up, fig out, figure, flourish, garnish, gild, gird, grace, interlard, lace, lard, ornament, prank, prank out, prank up, rig, scrimshaw, set, tart up, tire, titivate, trick out, trick up, trig out, trig up, trim, zing up, zip, zip up), canlandırmak (accelerate, animate, arouse, brace, bring to life, brisk, brisk up, characterize, drum up, enact, enliven, exhilarate, fortify, freshen, furbish up, galvanize, ginger, ginger up, give a fresh impetus to, hearten, impersonate, innervate, inspire, inspirit, interpret, invigorate, jazz, jazz up, jog, key up, liven, liven up, pep up, perform, personalize, personate, personify, play, play the role of, portray, quicken, rake up, rally, recreate, refresh, regenerate, represent, revitalize, revive, revivify, rouse, rouse up, smarten up, spirit, spirit up, stimulate, tone up, touch up, uplift, vitalize, vivify, wake, waken), üstünü başını düzeltmek (smarten up). (various references)

Ukrainian

відшліфовувати, причепурюватися (perk, prink oneself up, titivate), прибирати (bedeck, char, clean up, deck, decorate, do out, put away, rid, tidy). (various references)

Welsh

hoywi (brighten). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "SMARTEN": smartened, smartening, smartens. (additional references)

Misspellings

"SMARTEN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sartan, Sarton, satren, shatran, smarte, smartin, smartine, smelten, Smirren, sparten. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: martens, sarment.

-1 letter: aments, antres, armets, astern, mantes, marten, master, maters, matres, namers, ramens, ramets, remans, stamen, sterna, stream, tamers.

-2 letters: amens, ament, antes, antre, armet, aster, earns, etnas, manes, manse, mares, marse, marts, maser, mater, mates, means, meant, meats, mensa, menta, namer, names, nares, nates, nears, neats, nemas, nerts, ramen, ramet, rants, rates, reams.

+1 letter: garments, margents, menstrua, minarets, monstera, onstream, raftsmen, raiments, remnants, sarmenta, sarments, smartens, tonearms, trashmen, varments.

+2 letters: animaters, anterooms, antimeres, antiserum, argentums, arguments, armaments, averments, craftsmen, draftsmen, emanators, emigrants, fragments, grantsmen, lamenters, mannerist, marinates, marlstone, martinets, mastering, menstrual, merchants, mesentera, mestranol, miscreant, mishanter, mislearnt, monastery, monsteras, numerates, ornaments, oysterman, paraments, ruminates, sacrament, sarmentum, smartened, smartness, spearmint, steersman, streaming, terminals, tradesman, tradesmen, tramlines, transmute, tribesman, tyramines, vestryman.