spruce
/spɹuːs/ verbe C2En français : pomponner, apprêter
- To arrange neatly; tidy up.
- To make oneself spruce (neat and elegant in appearance).
- To tease.
He/she/it spruces · Prétérit spruced · Participe passé spruced · Forme en -ing sprucing
Formes du verbe
- Forme de base
- spruce
- He/she/it
- spruces
- Prétérit
- spruced
- Participe passé
- spruced
- Forme en -ing
- sprucing
Verbes à particule et expressions
Dans la bibliothèque
Beyond it was a hill, green and feathery with spruce and fir; there was a gap in it where the gray gable end of the little house she had seen from the other side of the Lake of Shining Waters was visible.
Down in the valley the path came out to the main road and then it was just up the spruce hill to the school.
Bell’s spruce grove over the hill and across his big pasture field.
Bell’s spruce grove as usual, fully intending to stay only long enough to “pick a chew.” But spruce groves are seductive and yellow nuts of gum beguiling; they picked and loitered and strayed; and as usual the first thing that recalled them to a sense of the flight of time was Jimmy Glover shouting from the top of a patriarchal old spruce “Master’s coming.”
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