Sekirov Dictionary

spruce

/spɹuːs/

noun 4
verb 3
adjective 1
forms 5
phrases 1

noun4

Any of various large coniferous evergreen trees or shrubs from the genus Picea, found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully spruce fir.
The wood of a spruce.
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[before a noun] Made of the wood of the spruce.
- That spruce table is beautiful!
(no longer used) Prussian leather; pruce.

verb3

To arrange neatly; tidy up.
To make oneself spruce (neat and elegant in appearance).
To tease.

adjective1

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Smart, trim, and elegant in appearance; fastidious (said of a person).
- He had great neatness of person, and he continued to wear his spruce black coat and his bowler hat, always a little too small for him, in a dapper, jaunty manner. — 1919

forms

spruced · sprucing · spruces · sprucer · sprucest

Phrases with spruce

spruce up
To dress or arrange smartly, elegantly, and neatly; to smarten.

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