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SMARTEN

Traducere în limba română

smarten verb A. tranzitiv

1. a înfrumuseţa, a face elegant, a dichist.

2. a înviora, a grăbi, a accelera.

smarten verb B. reflexiv

to smarten oneself up a se găti, a se înfrumuseţa, a se dichisi.

smarten verb C. intranzitiv

to smarten up a se înviora, a se dezgheţa, a se însufleţi, a se anima.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

It had no advantage of situation; but had been very much smartened up by the present proprietor; and, such as it was, there could be no possibility of the two friends passing it without a slackened pace and observing eyes.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

He occasionally made an attempt to smarten himself, and hum the fag-end of a tune; but his relapses into profound melancholy were only made the more impressive by the mockery of a hat exceedingly on one side, and a shirt-collar pulled up to his eyes.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)




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