spruce
verb/spruːs/
/spruːs/
Word Originverb late 16th cent.: perhaps from spruce (noun) in the obsolete sense ‘Prussian’, in the phrase spruce (leather) jerkin.
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they spruce | /spruːs/ /spruːs/ |
| he / she / it spruces | /ˈspruːsɪz/ /ˈspruːsɪz/ |
| past simple spruced | /spruːst/ /spruːst/ |
| past participle spruced | /spruːst/ /spruːst/ |
| -ing form sprucing | /ˈspruːsɪŋ/ /ˈspruːsɪŋ/ |
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