verb
- making oneself or something neat, clean, and attractive in appearance
Usage: present participle of ‘spruce up’
Examples
- She spent an hour sprucing up before the job interview.
- The homeowners are sprucing up their yard for the garden tour.
- He’s always sprucing himself up in the mirror.
- They’re sprucing up the old house to sell it.
- The team is sprucing up the presentation slides.
- She enjoys sprucing up her apartment with new decorations.