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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)