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TITTIVATE

Dictionary entry overview: What does tittivate mean?

• TITTIVATE (verb)
The verb TITTIVATE has 1 sense:

1. make neat, smart, or trim

Familiarity information: TITTIVATE used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• TITTIVATE (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Make neat, smart, or trim

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

slick up; smarten up; spiff up; spruce; spruce up; titivate; tittivate

Context examples:

Spruce up your house for Spring / titivate the child

Hypernyms (to "tittivate" is one way to...):

beautify; embellish; fancify; prettify (make more beautiful)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

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