Spruce Up

Definition: Spruce Up

Spruce 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: Spruce Up

Crosswords: Spruce Up

Books

• Girls Just Want to Have Funds: How to Spruce Up Your Money Life and Invest Like a Pro (reference)

  (more book examples)

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

Albanian

ndreq (adjust, arrange, change, clear, correct, dispose, dress, fix up, make amends, mend, piece, rectify, redress, refit, reform, reinstate, remake, remedy, repair, revise, Square, straighten, tidy up, touch up, tune up). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نظم (adjust, arrange, array, bed, cast, code, codify, collocate, compose, construct, control, dispose, fix, form, groom, lay, line, marshal, mastermind, measure, order, organize, plan, poetize, put in order, put things straight, reform, regiment, regulate, regulation, right, seed, settle, shape, shuffle, sort, stage, streamline, systematize, verse), ‏رتب (arrange, clean, collocate, construct, corral, dispose, do, form, hierarchy, lash up, line, marshal, ordain, order, pack, pigeonhole, plume, put in order, put things straight, range, rate, set, shape, sort, stow, straighten, tidy, trim). (various references)

Bulgarian 

издокарвам (perk, pipeclay, rig out, rig up). (various references)

Czech

vystrojit se (dress up, rig out). (various references)

French

mettre en ordre, faire beau, arranger. (various references)

German

schniegeln (titivate), herausputzen (array, deck out, dress up, smarten). (various references)

Greek 

καλλωπίζω (adorn, beautify, embellish), καλλωπίζομαι (beautify, prink). (various references)

Hungarian

bemesél. (various references)

Pig Latin

ucespray upay

Russian 

наряжаться (primp, tog oneself up). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

doterati se (groom, preen, primp, smarten up, titivate). (various references)

Spanish

engalanarse, engalanar (array, bedizen, deck, emblazon, festoon). (various references)

Swedish

fiffa upp (fig out, pipeclay, smarten up, tart up). (various references)

Turkish

düzeltmek (adjust, ameliorate, amend, arrange, better, clean up, correct, dub, emend, face-lift, fix, grade, grade up, haul up, heal, improve, justify, level, level off, level out, meliorate, mend, plane, planish, polish, polish up, reclaim, rectify, redress, refine, reform, regenerate, remedy, reorganize, right, set aright, slick, smooth, smooth away, smooth down, smooth out, smooth over, Spruce, Square, straighten, straighten out, tidy up, trim, try out, unbend, unscramble, upgrade), şık giyinmek (dress up, spruce oneself up), çeki düzen vermek (array, groom, right, tidy up). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cuppers, scupper.

-2 letters: cupper, pursue, spruce, supper, uppers.

-3 letters: cruse, cures, curse, ecrus, perps, preps, puces, purse, repps, sprue, sucre, super, upper, usurp.

-4 letters: ceps, crus, cues, cups, cure, curs, cusp, ecru, ecus, pecs, peps, perp, prep, puce, pups, pure, purs, recs, repp, reps, rues, ruse, scup, spec, spue, spur, suer, supe, sure, urus.

+1 letter: uppercuts.

+3 letters: perspicuous.

+5 letters: perspicuously, supercomputer.