spruce (up)

verb

ˈsprüs How to pronounce spruce (up) (audio)
Definition of spruce (up)next
as in to trim
to make neat hurriedly sprucing up the hotel dining room before the breakfast crowd began showing up

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for spruce (up)
  1. trim
  2. organize
  3. arrange
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  • What's next: The incoming Trump administration is likely to push the country's federal workforce back into the office — largely as a way to trim headcount.
    Alex Fitzpatrick, Axios, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Malcolm Washington and co-screenwriter Virgil Williams found a way to trim the play while keeping its spirit intact.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of trim
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  • After all, who had ever heard of hiring someone to organize your files?
    Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
  • At campuses across the country — including top California universities, New York University and Harvard — unions representing graduate student workers, part-time and non-tenure track faculty and others are rapidly and aggressively moving to organize workers.
    Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of organize
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  • The exhibition also gives visitors a chance to arrange their own bento box with the replica treats.
    Rosa Rahimi, CNN, 16 Dec. 2024
  • With no viable means of leaving the base, Moscow requested that the base's command arrange an immediate evacuation to Russia.
    David Brennan, ABC News, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of arrange
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“Spruce (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spruce%20%28up%29. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.

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