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spruce n. light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork
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spruce v. [
spruce up, titivate, tittivate, smarten up, slick up, spiff up] make neat, smart, or trim; "Spruce up your house for Spring"; "titivate the child"
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spruce s. [
dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, snappy] marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat"
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spruce n. any coniferous tree of the genus Picea
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spruce v. [
spruce up, slick up, smarten up] dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion; "He spruced up for the party"
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