Spruce can be categorized as an adjective, a noun and a verb.
Adjective |
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| spruce - Smart, trim, and elegant in appearance; fastidious said of a person. | ||
Verb |
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| spruce - To tease. | ||
Noun |
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| spruce - any coniferous tree of the genus Picea | ||
| spruce - light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork |
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| 1. | adj. | In the play Holofernes is ridiculing Don Adriana "the traveler from Spain" and says of him: "He is too picked, too spruce, too affected, Too odd, as it were, too PEREGRINate, as I may call it." | |
| 2. | verb | Not even at gunpoint will Imogen of the Internet admit she only learned CSS to spruce up her Myspace profile in the 2000s. | |
| 3. | verb | Do you like spruce beer? | |
| 4. | verb | Tom told me that he often drinks root beer, but he'd not only never drunk spruce beer, he'd never even heard of it. | |
| 5. | verb | The spruce is burning. | |
| 6. | verb | The spruce returns. | |
| 7. | verb | The spruce is returning. | |
| 8. | verb | I used those flowers to spruce up the house. | |
| 9. | verb | The fir, the spruce and the pine are all conifers. | |
| 10. | verb | Tom told me he often drinks root beer, but he'd not only never drunk spruce beer, he'd never even heard of it. | |
| 11. | verb | The house is always spruce. | |
| 12. | verb | One evening at sunset, Jane Andrews, Gilbert Blythe, and Anne Shirley were lingering by a fence in the shadow of gently swaying spruce boughs. | |
| 13. | verb | The neverlur is a trumpet made from spruce covered in birch bark. |
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| adj. | |
| In the play Holofernes is ridiculing Don Adriana "the traveler from Spain" and says of him: "He is too picked, too spruce, too affected, Too odd, as it were, too PEREGRINate, as I may call it." |
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| Not even at gunpoint will Imogen of the Internet admit she only learned CSS to spruce up her Myspace profile in the 2000s. | |
| Do you like spruce beer? | |
| Tom told me that he often drinks root beer, but he'd not only never drunk spruce beer, he'd never even heard of it. | |
| The spruce is burning. | |
| The spruce returns. | |
| The spruce is returning. | |
| I used those flowers to spruce up the house. | |
| The fir, the spruce and the pine are all conifers. | |
| Tom told me he often drinks root beer, but he'd not only never drunk spruce beer, he'd never even heard of it. | |
| The house is always spruce. | |
| One evening at sunset, Jane Andrews, Gilbert Blythe, and Anne Shirley were lingering by a fence in the shadow of gently swaying spruce boughs. | |
| The neverlur is a trumpet made from spruce covered in birch bark. | |