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Definition of Smartening
1. smarten [v] - See also: smarten
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smartening
Literary usage of Smartening
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On the Cards: Privacy, Identity and Trust in the Age of Smart Technologies by Perri 6, Ivan Briscoe (1996)
"... smartening up What is a smart card? Basically, a smart card is a tiny computer.
Although in this book, we talk mainly about cards, in principle, ..."
2. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1883)
"... she can help herself to that if the bottle is marked; but you look round in
the evening, between six and seven, and give the place a bit smartening up, ..."
3. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1889)
"'T is pretty much the same in every time and country ; but you 've no such
contriving and smartening up of old clothes to keep you busy in these days, ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1913)
"Honesty indeed discovered that the smartening-up process had been carried out
with inconvenient thoroughness. The entire exterior of the stove had been ..."
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