smarten
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈsmɑːt(ə)n/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Hyphenation: smart‧en
Verb
[edit]smarten (third-person singular simple present smartens, present participle smartening, simple past and past participle smartened)
- (transitive) To make smarter in appearance; to refurbish or spruce up.
- 1997 June 26, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter; 1), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
- The Sorting Ceremony will take place in a few minutes in front of the rest of the school. I suggest you all smarten yourselves up as much as you can while you are waiting.
- (transitive) To increase the speed of (one's travel on foot, etc.).
- 2001, Vernon Robinson, If I Should Die Before I Wake, page 264:
- I braced myself and smartened my pace, shouldering my way through the crowd.
- (transitive) To augment with computer technology.
- Synonym: computerize
- 2008, Roger Neeson Anderson, Albert Boulanger, John A. Johnson, Computer-aided Lean Management for the Energy Industry, page 335:
- How do we achieve this smartening of the grid? The CALM approach in the future will be to use reinforcement learning (RL) controllers as a basis for optimizing the synergy between operators and automation.
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[edit]Dutch
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle Dutch smarten, smerten, from Old Dutch *smertan, from Proto-West Germanic *smertan, from Proto-Germanic *smertaną.
Verb
[edit]smarten
- (transitive, archaic, poetic) to grieve, inflict suffering
- Zijn vertrek smartte mij zeer. ― His departure grieved me greatly.
Conjugation
[edit]| Conjugation of smarten (weak) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | smarten | |||
| past singular | smartte | |||
| past participle | gesmart | |||
| infinitive | smarten | |||
| gerund | smarten n | |||
| present tense | past tense | |||
| 1st person singular | smart | smartte | ||
| 2nd person sing. (jij) | smart | smartte | ||
| 2nd person sing. (u) | smart | smartte | ||
| 2nd person sing. (gij) | smart | smartte | ||
| 3rd person singular | smart | smartte | ||
| plural | smarten | smartten | ||
| subjunctive sing.1 | smarte | smartte | ||
| subjunctive plur.1 | smarten | smartten | ||
| imperative sing. | smart | |||
| imperative plur.1 | smart | |||
| participles | smartend | gesmart | ||
| 1) Archaic. | ||||
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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
[edit]smarten
Middle English
[edit]Verb
[edit]smarten
- Alternative form of smerten
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