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Princeton's WordNet

  1. spruce up, spruce, titivate, tittivate, smarten up, slick up, spiff upverb

    make neat, smart, or trim

    "Spruce up your house for Spring"; "titivate the child"

  2. spruce up, spruce, slick up, smarten upverb

    dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion

    "He spruced up for the party"

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  1. smarten upverb

    To wear smart clothes and look more stylish

  2. smarten upverb

    To make, or to become, less stupid or naive

Wikipedia

  1. smarten up

    The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy is an American animated television series created by Maxwell Atoms for Cartoon Network. The series originally premiered as segments of Grim & Evil on August 24, 2001. The segments were spun-out into their own series on June 13, 2003 (although the 2003-2004 episodes were also produced originally for Grim & Evil), and continued to air until November 9, 2007. A spin-off film, titled Underfist: Halloween Bash, aired on October 12, 2008. A total of 78 half-hour episodes were produced, including one hour-long Holiday special and four feature-length TV films, bringing the total number of episodes to 86, in the form of 160 segments. The episode "Billy and Mandy Moon the Moon" was part of Cartoon Network's "Invaded" event, which included other shows such Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Ed, Edd n Eddy, My Gym Partner's a Monkey, and Camp Lazlo, with Billy & Mandy being the last to air.

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  1. smarten up

    To smarten up generally means to improve one's appearance, behavior, or attitudes, making them more polished, sophisticated, or respectful. It can also refer to enhancing one's knowledge or skills. The term typically suggests a need for improvement or change.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of smarten up in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of smarten up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of smarten up in a Sentence

  1. Marion Ross:

    Lauren Bacall was fabulous and glamorous and just a wonderful person, her husband [Humphrey Bogart] was dying when we were making this… But she was so hardworking. Claudette Colbert was a huge star and not so swell. She was tough, tough on me. But it’s good to see all that because as you start your career and you see all these people up close, you think, ‘I don’t want to be that.’ So you begin to smarten up.

  2. Ryan Pack:

    You don't have senses so you can impair them with drugs, alcohol, and tobacco. You don't have a life so you can make bad decisions and harm yourself and or others, smarten up.


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