Concept cluster: Physical processes > Improving appearance
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(intransitive) To enhance one's own appearance.
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To refine.
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(non-native speakers' English) Misconstruction of assortment. [A collection of varying but related items.]
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(transitive) To make blissful.
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(transitive) To gladden about or all over; make glad; overjoy.
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An act of embellishing.
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Alternative form of enbliss [(transitive) To endue or fill with bliss; impart bliss to; make happy.]
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(obsolete) To embellish, adorn.
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(transitive) To pierce; penetrate; run through; stab.
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Render wiser; make scient by subtle means.
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Obsolete form of fabric. [(now rare) An edifice or building.]
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(transitive) To smooth; to plane.
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(rare, formal, transitive) To enrich; to fertilize.
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To have one's best possible appearance.
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(obsolete) To arrange (a marriage); to organise (a treaty).
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Alternative form of Kondo [(transitive) To tidy up using the methods advocated by Marie Kondo, especially keeping only those things that tokimeku (spark joy).]
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Alternative form of Kondo [(transitive) To tidy up using the methods advocated by Marie Kondo, especially keeping only those things that tokimeku (spark joy).]
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(transitive) To nicen.
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(transitive) To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of.
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(informal, intransitive) To get dressed up in showy clothing or jewellery.
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(normally in the phrasal verb posh up) To make posh, or posher.
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To make posh, or posher; to poshen
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(transitive, intransitive, UK) To make or become posh, to posh up
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(transitive) To comb; to make orderly.
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(informal, transitive, intransitive) To make pretty.
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(intransitive) To spend time improving one's appearance, often in front of a mirror.
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(northern UK, dialectal) Alternative spelling of preen [A forked tool used by clothiers for dressing cloth.]
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One who prinks.
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One who shapes.
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(transitive) To make smarter in appearance; to refurbish or spruce up.
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(intransitive) To wear smart clothes and look more stylish
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(transitive, chiefly US, informal) To improve appearance or appeal by increasing stylishness or functionality, or by adding other attractive features.
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(transitive, slang, idiomatic) to decorate or otherwise make more attractive.
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(idiomatic) To dress or arrange smartly, elegantly, and neatly; to smarten.
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(usually with up) To arrange neatly; tidy up.
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(transitive) To smarten; spruce up.
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Anyone or anything which straightens.
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(transitive) To render stylish, to give a fashionable turn to.
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(transitive) To make (a material) tacky.
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Obsolete form of titivate. [To make small improvements or alterations to (one's appearance etc.); to add some finishing touches to, to spruce up or touch up.]
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One who tidies.
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That which whets or sharpens; especially, an appetizer.

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