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    [Verb]  | "smart*en" | \ ˈsmär-tᵊn \


    1: to make smart or smarter; especially : spruce —usually used with up

    2: to smarten oneself —used with up


    Origin: 1782 ;

    [Phrasal verb]  | "smarten up" 


    1: to become more intelligent or aware : to become smarter

    2: to make (someone or something) smarter or more aware

    3: to make (someone or something) neat and attractive

    [Verb]  | "smartens (up)" 


    1: as in preens, primps;


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     [ "Smartens" ]

    1: An individual showing brilliance, genius and intelligence.

      * e.g.,  ... Wow that guy's a Smartens! 

     [ "smarten up" ]

    1: pay attention to what you're doing See watch your back.

      * e.g.,  ... While walking down the street you go to turn down a blind alley. At the corner someone notices you. "Hey smarten up!." You look down the alley realizing what you were about to do and proceed down the street instead. 

     [ "smarten up" ]

    1: to smarten somebody up - to make look nicer or neat in appearance

      * e.g.,  ... then he smartened her up 

     [ "Smarten up" ]

    1: What an inbred owner says to a fan who tells him to fire a lousy coach.

      * e.g.,  ... Fan: "Hey Mark, you need to fire Josh McDaniels, he's is awful." 

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