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Spruce

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Noun

1. spruce

light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork

2. spruce

any coniferous tree of the genus Picea

Verb

3. slick up, smarten up, spiff up, spruce, spruce up, titivate, tittivate

make neat, smart, or trim

Example Sentences:
'Spruce up your house for Spring'
'titivate the child'

4. slick up, smarten up, spruce, spruce up

dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion

Example Sentences:
'He spruced up for the party'

Adjective

5. dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, snappy, spiffy, spruce

marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners

Example Sentences:
'a dapper young man'
'a jaunty red hat'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Spruce

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noun
1. 
any coniferous tree of the N temperate genus Picea, cultivated for timber and for ornament: family Pinaceae. They grow in a pyramidal shape and have needle-like leaves and light-coloured wood
See also Norway spruce, blue spruce, white spruce, black spruce
2. 
the wood of any of these trees
adjective
neat, smart, and trim

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Spruce

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adjectiveWord forms: ˈsprucer or ˈsprucest
1. 
neat and trim in a smart, dapper way
verb transitiveWord forms: spruced or ˈsprucing
2. 
to make spruce
usually with up
verb intransitive
3. 
to make oneself spruce
usually with up
noun
1. 
any of a genus (Picea) of evergreen trees of the pine family, having slender needles that are rhombic in cross section
2. 
the soft, light wood of any of these trees
3. 
any of several evergreen trees, as the Douglas fir, resembling the spruces

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Spruce

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n.
1.
a. Any of various coniferous evergreen trees of the genus Picea, having flattened or four-angled needlelike leaves, a conic shape, pendulous cones, and soft wood often used for paper pulp.
b. Any of various similar or related trees.
c. The wood of any of these trees.
2. A grayish green to dark greenish black.
adj. spruc·er, spruc·est
Neat, trim, and smart in appearance: "a good-looking man; spruce and dapper, and very tidy" (Anthony Trollope).
v. spruced, spruc·ing, spruc·es
v.tr.
To make neat and trim: spruced up the chairs with new slipcovers.
v.intr.
To make oneself neat and smart in appearance: He was sprucing for the school dance.

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