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Pronunciation: [smˈɑːtənd] (IPA)

Smartened up is a term that means to improve or enhance a situation or a person's appearance or behavior. There are many synonyms for smartened up, such as spruced up, polished, refined, enhanced, perfected, and sharpened. Sprucing up usually refers to improving one's appearance, while polishing suggests refining a particular skill. Perfection and enhancement relate to making something superior or becoming better at it. On the other hand, sharpened suggests making something more precise or specific, such as sharpening a skill or a tool. In summary, these synonyms can be used interchangeably to describe the act of improving or refining something, whether it is a person, situation, or object.
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It had been smartened up till it looked more like a doll's house than a human habitation.
"A Vanished Hand"
Sarah Doudney
You tell me that of your own college and mess associates not more than one in five or six have survived the wreck of fortune the first few years of extravagance accomplish, and that Manheim, Brussels, and Munich can show the white-seamed, mock-smartened-up gentilities which once were the glories of Bond Street and the Park; but for poor Martin, I suspect, even these last sanctuaries do not remain,-as I hear it, he is totally gone.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
But they had evidently concluded to make him a formal call now, induced by friendliness and curiosity, for they were smartened up a little; and it had evidently been arranged that Silas should do the honors, for Tug kept crowding him to the front as they walked up the stairs.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe

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