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Definition: Smarten Up |
Smarten UpVerb1. 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 UpSynonyms: slick up (v), spiff up (v), spruce (v), spruce up (v), titivate (v), tittivate (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Smarten Up |
| Etymologies containing "smarten up": Smarten. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 tornar mais vivo, ficar esperto, ativar-se. (various references) 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) прихорашиваться (preen, primp, spruce up, titivate), прихорашивать (titivate). (various references) opametiti (make wiser), doterati se (groom, preen, primp, spruce up, titivate). (various references) 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) snygga upp (do up, tidy up, vamp), fiffa upp (fig out, pipeclay, spruce up, tart up). (various references) 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) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6D 61 72 74 65 6E      55 70 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101101 01100001 01110010 01110100 01100101 01101110 00100000 01010101 01110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S m a r t e n   U p |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006D 0061 0072 0074 0065 006E      0055 0070 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5379678486718025582 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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