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spruce verb1. [spru:s] L16.
[from SPRUCE adjective2 & adverb.]
verb trans. Make spruce, trim, or neat. Freq. foll. by up. L16.
B. Chatwin Photos show the building spruced up with a coat of whitewash.
verb intrans. Foll. by up, out: make oneself spruce. E18.
F. Forsyth He was still in a robe; there was little..cause..to rise early or spruce up.
Comb.: spruce-up colloq. (orig. US) the action of sprucing up; an instance of this, a tidying-up, a refurbishment.