Synonym: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, slick up, smarten up, snappy, spiff up, spiffy, spruce up, titivate, tittivate. Similar words: spruce up, sprung, truce, jurisprudence, prune, pruning, prudent, imprudent. Meaning: [spruːs] 
n. 1. light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork 2. any coniferous tree of the genus Picea. v. 1. make neat, smart, or trim 2. dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion. adj. marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners.
n. 1. light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork 2. any coniferous tree of the genus Picea. v. 1. make neat, smart, or trim 2. dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion. adj. marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners. 
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1. He looked spruce in his best clothes.
2. Paul went upstairs to spruce up before dinner.
3. Spruce up and go with me.
4. The pine, cedar and spruce are evergreens.
5. Early settlers built frames of spruce, maple and pine.
6. Trees such as spruce, pine and oak have been planted.
7. Mr Bailey was looking very spruce in a white linen suit.
8. Chris was looking spruce in his stiff-collared black shirt and new short hair cut.
9. Following in his steps(Sentencedict), I passed through damp spruce woods to an open cliff.
10. He looked spruce and handsome in a clean white shirt.
11. They've employed an advertising agency to spruce up the company image.
12. It was made of soft lumber, spruce by the look of it.
13. My lookout tree is a red spruce.
14. When the evening comes the female spruce budworm moth rises up on warm air currents.
15. The small russet cones of red spruce are borne only near the tip of the crown.
16. The red spruce and Fraser fir began to recolonize the cut-over areas.
17. Gradually I descended the spruce tree and slowly crept toward the feeding birds.
18. The spruce branch fell to the floor and the ivy wound itself around her neck like some pagan wreath.
19. He needed his wife's presence to spruce him up and to take both him and the cottage in hand.
20. This eight-engined monster is made of spruce and has a wingspan of almost 100 metres.
21. There will also be a ￡1billion drive to spruce up deprived inner-city areas.
22. Whatever way they sliced the statistics, the mortality of the red spruce was dramatic and frightening.
23. Then it dashed to the ground near me, dug under a leaf, and pulled up a damp spruce cone.
24. It also makes specialty parts and accessories, which can be used to spruce up the performance and appearance of existing automobiles.
25. The snow comes a little earlier and stays a little later up on the spruce ridges than it does below.
26. Candles burned on the window sills, among fragrant boughs of spruce and pine.
27. Overhead, we lose count of eagles in singles and pairs, swooping along the tops of cedars, hemlock and spruce.
28. Hub Vogelmann can tell you two stories about the future of red spruce.
29. There are many designs of tripod varying from interlocking A-frames to simple uprights made from the tips of larch or spruce trees.
30. The borough council has earmarked more than ￡80,000 to spruce up properties on Newport Road, opposite the bus station.