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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: make neat, smart, or trim; "Spruce up your house for Spring"; "titivate the child" [syn: spruce up, spruce, titivate, tittivate, smarten up, slick up, spiff up]

Merriam Webster's

or tittivate verb (-vated; -vating) Etymology: perhaps from ¹tidy + renovate Date: 1824 transitive verb to make smart or spruce intransitive verb smarten, spruce • titivation noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (also tittivate) colloq. 1 adorn, smarten. 2 (often refl.) put the finishing touches to. Derivatives: titivation n. Etymology: earlier tidivate, perh. f. TIDY after cultivate

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Titivate Tit"i*vate, Tittivate Tit"ti*vate, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Titivated; p. pr. & vb. n. Titivating.] [Formed from an uncertain source, in imitation of words in -ate fr. L.] To dress or smarten up; to spruce. -- Tit`i*va"tion, Tit`ti*va"tion, n. [Both Humorous] ``Come here, an' let me titivate you.'' He sat down beside her, and submitted to be dusted. --Quiller-Couch.

Moby Thesaurus

adorn, array, beautify, bedeck, bedizen, belie, blazon, camouflage, color, dandify, deck, deck out, decorate, disguise, distort, dizen, doll up, dress, dress up, embellish, emblazon, embroider, enrich, falsify, fancy up, fig out, fix up, fudge, furbish, garble, garnish, get up, gild, gloss, gloss over, grace, gussy up, mask, miscite, miscolor, misquote, misreport, misrepresent, misstate, ornament, overdress, overstate, paint, pervert, prank, prank up, preen, prettify, pretty up, primp, primp up, prink, prink up, rag out, redecorate, redo, refurbish, set off, set out, slant, slick up, smarten, smarten up, spruce up, strain, trick out, trick up, trim, twist, understate, varnish, warp, whitewash