smarten

present singular third person smartens · participle present smartening · participle past smartened · past smartened

1. transitiveTo make smarter in appearance; to refurbish or spruce up.

   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.

   1997 June 26, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter; 1), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN

2. transitiveTo increase the speed of (one's travel on foot, etc.).

   I braced myself and smartened my pace, shouldering my way through the crowd.

   2001, Vernon Robinson, If I Should Die Before I Wake, page 264

3. transitiveTo augment with computer technology.

   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.

   2008, Roger Neeson Anderson, Albert Boulanger, John A. Johnson, Computer-aided Lean Management for the Energy Industry, page 335

   Synonyms: computerize