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View synonyms for spruce-up

spruce-up

[ sproos-uhp ]

noun

  1. an act of cleaning up, refurbishing, renovating, or the like.


spruce up

verb

  1. adverb to make (oneself, a person, or thing) smart and neat
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Word History and Origins

Origin of spruce-up1

Noun use of verb phrase spruce up
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Idioms and Phrases

Make neat and trim, as in She spruced up the chairs with new cushions . This idiom originated in the late 1500s as simply spruce but had acquired up by 1676.
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Example Sentences

Kirsten Conner, founder of Kirsten Conner Interior Design, agrees that seasonal decorating’s benefits go beyond an external spruce-up.

You probably don’t want to put a new coat of paint on your exterior walls in February, but winter is an excellent time for interior painting and giving your rooms a quick spruce-up.

One of the benefits of Disneyland getting a major land expansion via Galaxy’s Edge was a spruce-up for the rest of the park, from Sleeping Beauty Castle — now brighter, bolder and more overtly referencing the ink of the original animated work — to a fresh coat of paint and a few new illusions for the Haunted Mansion, a project that was completed during the pandemic.

In addition to the planned clock tower spruce-up, Joyal said the city had already contributed $5,000 to get the ad hoc planning committee going and another $50,000 to help the committee with other initial expenses, including merchandising and booking and reserving entertainment.

Three years ago, Bulgari, the luxury brand, paid for a €1.5 million, 10-month spruce-up.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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