Usually means: Improving appearance, making neat, tidy.
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  1. sprucing: Merriam-Webster
  2. sprucing: Vocabulary.com
  3. Sprucing, sprucing: Wordnik
  4. sprucing: Wiktionary
  5. sprucing: Dictionary.com
  6. Sprucing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. Sprucing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. sprucing: FreeDictionary.org
  9. sprucing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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(Note: See spruce as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Spruce)

noun:  Any of various large coniferous evergreen trees or shrubs from the genus Picea, found in northern temperate and boreal regions; originally and more fully spruce fir.
noun:  (uncountable) The wood of a spruce.
noun:  (used attributively) Made of the wood of the spruce.
noun:  (obsolete) Prussian leather; pruce.
adjective:  (comparable) Smart, trim, and elegant in appearance; fastidious (said of a person).
verb:  (usually with up) To arrange neatly; tidy up.
verb:  (ambitransitive, usually with up) To make oneself spruce (neat and elegant in appearance).
verb:  To tease.
noun:  (obsolete) Prussia.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  An unincorporated community in Caledonia Township, Alcona County, Michigan.
noun:  A township in Roseau County, Minnesota, named for spruce trees there.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Bates County, Missouri.
noun:  A town and unincorporated community therein, in Oconto County, Wisconsin.
▸ Also see spruce


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