What is "smarten"

Usage examples of "smarten".

Alice had sentenced her to a sound birching on the bare, to smarten up this diffident pupil.

I hoped he would smarten himself up a bit, and then may be Burdock would ask him into the house, on my account, if I told him who he was.

If the damned municipality had not decided to smarten up the street with a sidewalk, a ridiculously high curb and horrid little flowering prunus trees.

There were the town Boers, smartened and perhaps a little enervated by prosperity and civilisation, men of business and professional men, more alert and quicker than their rustic comrades.

Since then, they had been smartened up and gentrified out of all recognition, their gleaming paintwork and shiny, clean, linen-draped windows confusing and bewildering her.

Smartened up by the aid of a clean shirt and a wet hairbrush, with which instrument, on occasions of ceremony, he lubricates such thin locks as remain to him after his life of severe study, Mr. Bucket lays in a breakfast of two mutton chops as a foundation to work upon, together with tea, eggs, toast, and marmalade on a corresponding scale.

She kneh across the little table from Him, no longer aware that her worn workclothes from Ireta (however cleaned and smartened up by Sassinak's crew) were different from his immaculate white robe.

Grits and I, therefore, having bedded down our horses, eaten our meal, and smartened ourselves up, caught a bus down the hill and paid our entrance money to the hop.

This town had tried to smarten itself by hacking down most of its trees, giving an indescribable impression of ravagement, like the skull of a woman who has gone bald through a fever.

He was now attired in a fresh Emassi uniform, smartened with tabs of the highest rank available to Emassi.

She 'was expecting him, for he had telephoned, but she had not changed out of a drab blue housedress, nor in any way smartened herself up.

All Theresienstadt's other auditoriums and meeting halls will be smartened up.

For that he needed a base of operations, a way station where he could shake off his travel fatigue while he smartened up his appearance, his mental acuity, and his attitude.

After missing Parker that second time, up on the roof at Ellie's place, the guy might have smartened up all of a sudden and cleared out of town.

The last day everyone was busy cleaning up and smartening their downside clothing.