transcription, транскрипция: [ smɑ:(r)t(ə)n ]
( 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