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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
spruce .
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Examples
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DVD Talk calls spruced-up re-releases "double-dips" and lists the best and worst of them:
GreenCine Daily 2009
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DVD Talk calls spruced-up re-releases "double-dips" and lists the best and worst of them:
GreenCine Daily 2009
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DVD Talk calls spruced-up re-releases "double-dips" and lists the best and worst of them:
GreenCine Daily 2009
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Even Roxy expressed her pleasure in seeing "things kind of spruced up," and Merry's gentle treatment of the hard-working drudge won her heart entirely.
Jack And Jill Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 1902
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"things kind of spruced up," and Merry's gentle treatment of the hard-working drudge won her heart entirely.
Jack and Jill Louisa May Alcott 1860
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Manana Shafieva, a stylist at the Turkish Salon, said many Iranian men bring in their wives to be spruced up.
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It's looking particularly fine right now, both because of the blooming and because we just had it spruced up.
Wisteria vgqn 2010
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In 1968, long-haired youth shaved and spruced up to hit the campaign trail in New Hampshire, determined to drive Lyndon B.
Ken Blackwell: Piddler on the Roof Ken Blackwell 2011
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Manana Shafieva, a stylist at the Turkish Salon, said many Iranian men bring in their wives to be spruced up.
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Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal The restaurant, which was spruced up last year, has a classic mid-century interior that gives the place its undeniable charm.
Dim Sum on Demand 2011
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