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To make small improvements or alterations to (one's appearance etc.); to add some finishing touches to, to spruce up or touch up.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
make neat, smart, or trim
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- Spruce up your house for Spring
- titivate the child
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: spruce up, spruce, tittivate, smarten up, slick up, spiff up
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fancify, beautify, embellish, prettify
A modification of the earlier spelling tidivate, perhaps based on tidy + -vate, on the pattern of words such as cultivate and renovate.
Across languages
Translations
24 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Bulgarian:
украсявам се
— to make small improvements to
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Bulgarian:
спретвам се
— to make small improvements to
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Czech:
vyšňořit
— to make small improvements to
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Finnish:
huolitella
— to make small improvements to
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Finnish:
viimeistellä
— to make small improvements to
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Finnish:
huosia
— to make small improvements to
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Finnish:
pyntätä
— to make small improvements to
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Finnish:
tällätä
— to make small improvements to
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Finnish:
hiplata
— to make small improvements to
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French:
pomponner
— to make small improvements to
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German:
schniedeln
— to make small improvements to
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Japanese:
しゃれる
— to make small improvements to
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Polish:
odpicowywać
— to make small improvements to
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Polish:
odpicować
— to make small improvements to
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Portuguese:
enfeitar
— to make small improvements to
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Portuguese:
enfeitar-se
— to make small improvements to
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Russian:
наряжа́ть
(narjažátʹ)
— to make small improvements to
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Russian:
наряжаться
(narjažatʹsja)
— to make small improvements to
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Russian:
прихорашивать
(prixorašivatʹ)
— to make small improvements to
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Russian:
прихорашиваться
(prixorašivatʹsja)
— to make small improvements to
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Spanish:
arreglar
— to make small improvements to
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Spanish:
afeitar
— to make small improvements to
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Spanish:
adornar
— to make small improvements to
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Spanish:
vestirse de gala
— to make small improvements to