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What does smarten mean?

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Verb
  1. To make smarter in appearance; to refurbish or spruce up.
  2. To increase speed. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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Workmen have started regenerating Westcliff's Hamlet Court Road following a 12-year campaign by traders to smarten it up.
The EU Military Staff has only 178 military people, and so we need to smarten the way we plan at the strategic level.
Kate Moss selected a naval-inspired Chanel jacket to smarten her Breton tee.
Angry cabbies took to the streets of York to demonstrate against moves by rail company GNER to smarten them up.
By Nancy Franklin For the next four months, Jane Austen will smarten up your living room.
The pond was already there and Mr and Mrs Smith had intended to build a framework around it and smarten it up, but they never got round to it.

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