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Verb: smarten up
  1. Make neat, smart, or trim
    "smarten up your house for Spring"
    - spruce up, spruce, titivate, tittivate, slick up, spiff up
     
  2. Dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion
    "He smartened up for the party"
    - spruce up, spruce, slick up

Derived forms: smartened up, smartens up, smartening up

Type of: beautify, embellish, fancify, groom, neaten, prettify

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