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   spruce

   /spruːs/

   adjective

   • 1. neat in dress and appearance: "Angela was a very spruce and tidy person"

   verb

   • 1. make someone or something smarter or tidier: "the fund will be used to spruce up historic buildings" Similar smarten upmake smartertidy upmake tidymake neaterneaten upput in orderclean upinformal:do uptart upposh upgussy upgroom oneselftidy oneselfsmarten oneself upfreshen oneself uppreen oneselfprimp oneselfprink oneselfpretty oneselfbeautify oneselfhave a wash and brush-upinformal:titivate oneselfdoll oneself uptart oneself uparchaic:plume oneselftrig oneself

   Word Origin late 16th century: perhaps from spruce1 in the obsolete sense ‘Prussian’, in the phrase spruce (leather) jerkin.

   Derivatives

   • 1. sprucely adverb
   • 2. spruceness noun

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   What does spruce up mean?

   • A combination of " spruce " as in "to spruce up a place" and "spice" as in to "to spice it up ". The combined word means to both add life and fire to a decorating theme or event. 1) "Lets sprice this place up a little!" 2) "This party's a little dead, lets sprice it up!" 3) "It's the sprice of life baby!" Get a Sprice mug for your boyfriend Abdul.

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   What does it mean to spruce up for a wedding?

   • Spruce is a verb that means you pay special attention to your personal appearance, especially your grooming and clothing. If you want to spruce up for a wedding, you'll need to rent a tuxedo and do something with your hair. Spruce can also mean that you're making something else look better.

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   What is a spruce tree?

   • any evergreen, coniferous tree of the genus Picea, of the pine family, having short, angular, needle-shaped leaves attached singly around twigs and bearing hanging cones with persistent scales. any of various allied trees, as the Douglas fir and the hemlock spruce. the wood of any such tree. made from the wood of a spruce tree or trees.

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   What is another word for spruce?

   • Other species include - western red cedar, Engelmann spruce, alpine fir, whitebark pine, limber pine, alpine larch and occassionally western white pine. Find similar words to spruce using the buttons below. Spruce definition: A grayish green to dark greenish black.

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