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What (who) is smarten - definition
smarten
AMERICAN-BRED THOROUGHBRED RACEHORSE
¦ verb (smarten up or smarten someone/thing up) make or become smarter.
smarten
AMERICAN-BRED THOROUGHBRED RACEHORSE
(smartens, smartening, smartened)
• smarten up
If you smarten yourself or a place up, you make yourself or the place look neater and tidier.
...a 10-year programme to smarten up the London Underground...
She had wisely smartened herself up.
...a medical student who refused to smarten up.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P, V P
Smarten
AMERICAN-BRED THOROUGHBRED RACEHORSE
·vt To make smart or spruce;
- usually with up.
Wikipedia
Smarten
Smarten (April 17, 1976 – March 31, 2003)Horse Profile for Smarten Equibase was an American Thoroughbred racehorse and successful sire. Bred in Maryland by Jim and Eleanor Ryan and raced under their Ryehill Farm banner, he had a record of 27: 11-8-2 with career earnings of $716,426.
Examples of use of smarten
1. This is not the first effort to force civil servants to smarten up their act.
2. Dressed in a black vest, dark denim jeans, and carrying a pair of stilettos in her hands, Amy had made some effort to smarten up her appearance.
3. Beijing city administrators want to smarten up the cab industry with fewer than 500 days before the 2008 Summer Games begin.
4. Jan 17, 2006 (KHARTOUM) Khartoums usually slow–paced city centre is a hive of activity as impoverished Sudan rushes to smarten up its rundown capital for next weeks African Union summit, the first major gathering here in almost three decades.
5. What is RSS? ‘Throwing her weight around‘: L‘Wren Scott She may be a stylist to the stars, but Mick Jagger‘s girlfriend L‘Wren Scott has ruffled a few feathers with her attempts to smarten up the Rolling Stones.