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Smarten Up

Definition: Smarten Up

Smarten Up

Verb

1. Make neat, smart, or trim; "Spruce up your house for Spring".

2. Dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion; "He spruced up for the party".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Smarten Up

Synonyms: slick up (v), spiff up (v), spruce (v), spruce up (v), titivate (v), tittivate (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Smarten Up

Etymologies containing "smarten up": Smarten. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Smarten Up

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Books

  • 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.

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Modern Translation: Smarten Up

Language Translations for "smarten up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

zbukuroj (adorn, beautify, bedeck, bedizen, bespangle, bespread, color, colour, deck, decorate, dress, embellish, embroider, festoon, flatter, Flavor, flavour, garnish, gild the pill, glorify, inlay, intersperse, landscape, ornament, pink, prettify, set with, stud, touch up, trap, trick out, trim, water down), gjallëroj (animate, enliven, ensoul, exhilarate, illumine, inspirit, liven, liven up, move, pep, quicken, relieve, renew, revive, rouse, set about, spirit, spiritualize, sting, stir, tense, vitalize, vivify, warm up). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏تبهرج (adorn oneself, groom oneself). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

ускорявам (accelerate, activate, advance, expedite, force, forward, hasten, hurry, hurry up, hustle, precipitate, quicken, speed up, trigger, urge, zip), отраквам се (acquire a polish, become more sociable, gain experience), оживявам (enliven, exhilarate, jazz, liven, quicken, relive, touch up, vitalize, vivify, warm, warm up, zip), подобрявам (ameliorate, amend, better, get better, help, improve, improve on, make better, meliorate, mend, perfect, polish, polish up, rehabilitate, remedy). (various references)

   

Czech

  

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

   

French

  

rendre plus élégant. (various references)

   

German

  

sich in schale werfen, sich herausmachen, schneller werden (pick up, quicken, speed up), richten (address, aim, bend straight, direct, execute, fit, fix, focus, get ready, guide, judge, level, manage, orientate, pass judgment, play, point, prepare, present, put to death, remodel, send, set, sight, steer, straighten out, suit, to judge (by), train, turn), herrichten (do up, get ready, make, prepare, set, set up), flotter werden, aufmöbeln (buck up, camp up, cheer up, do up, jazz up, pep up, polish up, recondition, revamp, to recondition). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל'"וץ (be glad, rejoice). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

felélénkül (liven up, to come to life, to perk up, to smarten). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

artensmay upay

   

Portuguese

  

tornar mais vivo, ficar esperto, ativar-se. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

grãbi (accelerate, anticipate, bustle, expedite, force, forward, hasten, hurry, hustle, mend one's pace, precipitate, press, push, push on, quicken, rush, speed, spur, wing), dichisi (adorn, arrange, dress up, Spruce, trim), dezmorţi (chafe, revive, take the chill off), accelera (accelerate, dispatch, expedite, force, forward, hasten, hurry, mend, precipitate, push, push on, quicken, speed up, wing), înviora (engraft, enliven, exhilarate, fire, freshen, illuminate, invigorate, push, refresh, regenerate), 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, trap, trim). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

прихорашиваться (preen, primp, spruce up, titivate), прихорашивать (titivate). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

opametiti (make wiser), doterati se (groom, preen, primp, spruce up, titivate). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

mejorarse de aspecto (smarten), hermosear (beautify, embellish, prettify, smarten), 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, 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, smooth, smooth out, sort, sort out, Square, stage, tell off, tidy, tidy out, tidy up, tie up, trim up). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

snygga upp (do up, tidy up, vamp), fiffa upp (fig out, pipeclay, spruce up, tart up). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sağını solunu toplamak (smarten), süslenmek (dress up, make one's toilet, prank oneself out, prank oneself up, prink, titivate), uykudan uyanmak, toplamak (accumulate, add, add together, add up, agglomerate, aggregate, amass, assemble, beat up, bring together, build, call in, cast up, clear away, club, collect, combine, compile, concentrate, congest, congregate, consolidate, convene, cull, fold down back, furl, gather, gather up, glean, hand-pick, harvest, heap up, herd, hive, hive up, hoard, huddle, impound, lay up, levy, mass, muster, pack, pick, pick up, pluck, raise, rake together, rally, reckon up, recover, recruit, reunite, round up, scoop up, sum up, summon, summon up, tot up, total, totalize, treasure, treasure up, turn out), 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, spirit, spirit up, stimulate, tone up, touch up, uplift, vitalize, vivify, wake, waken), üstünü başını düzeltmek (smarten). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Smarten Up

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-m-n-p-r-s-t-u"

-1 letter: menstrua, superman, tempuras, upstream.

-2 letters: antrums, arpents, entraps, manures, martens, matures, munster, natures, parents, pastern, pasture, peanuts, pneumas, punster, punters, putamen, restamp, sarment, saunter, smarten, stamper, sternum, strumae, stumper, sumpter, surname, tampers, tempura, trepans, unsmart, unstrap, uprates, upstare, uptears.

-3 letters: aments, amuser, antres, antrum, armets, arpens, arpent, astern, enrapt, entrap, erupts, estrum, mantes.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-m-n-p-r-s-t-u"
 

+2 letters: intercampus, pentamerous.

 

+3 letters: permutations, planetariums, portmanteaus, premenstrual, reassumption.

 

+4 letters: mousetrapping, paramountcies, prematureness, reassumptions, subdepartment, superhumanity, supermilitant, superromantic, supplementary, underpayments, unimportances.

 

+5 letters: extemporaneous, parenchymatous, perambulations, pneumatophores, pneumothoraces, pneumothoraxes, premenstrually, pretournaments, recomputations, spermatogonium, subdepartments, supernormality, suprasegmental.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Smarten Up


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 6D 61 72 74 65 6E      55 70

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101101 01100001 01110010 01110100 01100101 01101110 00100000 01010101 01110000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#109 &#97 &#114 &#116 &#101 &#110 &#32 &#85 &#112

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006D 0061 0072 0074 0065 006E      0055 0070

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5379678486718025582

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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