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Definition of spruce verb from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

spruce

verb

NAmE//sprus//

Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they spruce

he / she / it spruces

past simple spruced

-ing form sprucing

Phrasal Verbsspruce up

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