英语词汇“titivate”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Titivate means to spiff up or tidy up. When you’re getting dressed for the prom, you might fuss with your hair and your dress and generally titivate yourself until you’re ready to step out and make your grand entry.

You can titivate your makeup or your room or you can titivate yourself — all of it in the pursuit of making something more attractive and neat. Titivate can also mean to make small alterations to something. You might titivate your new coat by adding cute buttons and ribbons to it. Titivate, which is not a very commonly used word, may have originated from the word tidy, formed on the pattern of words like cultivate.

WORD FAMILY

titivate: titivated, titivating, titivation+/titivation: titivations

USAGE EXAMPLES

One of the formats in the BBC's titivated arts schedule is What Do Artists Do All Day?; the first subject is Jack Vettriano.

The Guardian(Mar 15, 2013)

They titivate their short hair: "nothing fantastic, no hint of Merseybeat".

The Guardian(Dec 17, 2012)

Not for the world would she have had Carol think that she titivated herself for him.

Stockley, Cynthia, Wild Honey—Stories of South Africa(2011)

v make neat, smart, or trim

titivate the child

Syn|Hyper

slick up, smarten up, spiff up, spruce, spruce up, tittivate

beautify, embellish, fancify, prettify

make more beautiful

单词	titivate
释义	titivate (once / 125738 pages) v Titivate means to spiff up or tidy up. When you’re getting dressed for the prom, you might fuss with your hair and your dress and generally titivate yourself until you’re ready to step out and make your grand entry. You can titivate your makeup or your room or you can titivate yourself — all of it in the pursuit of making something more attractive and neat. Titivate can also mean to make small alterations to something. You might titivate your new coat by adding cute buttons and ribbons to it. Titivate, which is not a very commonly used word, may have originated from the word tidy, formed on the pattern of words like cultivate. WORD FAMILY titivate: titivated, titivating, titivation+/titivation: titivations USAGE EXAMPLES One of the formats in the BBC's titivated arts schedule is What Do Artists Do All Day?; the first subject is Jack Vettriano. The Guardian(Mar 15, 2013) They titivate their short hair: "nothing fantastic, no hint of Merseybeat". The Guardian(Dec 17, 2012) Not for the world would she have had Carol think that she titivated herself for him. Stockley, Cynthia, Wild Honey—Stories of South Africa(2011) v make neat, smart, or trim titivate the child Syn\|Hyper slick up, smarten up, spiff up, spruce, spruce up, tittivate beautify, embellish, fancify, prettify make more beautiful
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