Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to smarten
Participle: smartened
Gerund: smartening
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | smarten |
| you | smarten |
| he;she;it | smartens |
| we | smarten |
| you | smarten |
| they | smarten |
Perfect
| I | have smartened |
| you | have smartened |
| he;she;it | has smartened |
| we | have smartened |
| you | have smartened |
| they | have smartened |
Past
| I | smartened |
| you | smartened |
| he;she;it | smartened |
| we | smartened |
| you | smartened |
| they | smartened |
Pluperfect
| I | had smartened |
| you | had smartened |
| he;she;it | had smartened |
| we | had smartened |
| you | had smartened |
| they | had smartened |
Future
| I | will smarten |
| you | will smarten |
| he;she;it | will smarten |
| we | will smarten |
| you | will smarten |
| they | will smarten |
Future Perfect
| I | will have smartened |
| you | will have smartened |
| he;she;it | will have smartened |
| we | will have smartened |
| you | will have smartened |
| they | will have smartened |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | smarten |
| you | smarten |
| he;she;it | smarten |
| we | smarten |
| you | smarten |
| they | smarten |
Perfect
| I | have smartened |
| you | have smartened |
| he;she;it | have smartened |
| we | have smartened |
| you | have smartened |
| they | have smartened |
Imperfect
| I | smartened |
| you | smartened |
| he;she;it | smartened |
| we | smartened |
| you | smartened |
| they | smartened |
Pluperfect
| I | had smartened |
| you | had smartened |
| he;she;it | had smartened |
| we | had smartened |
| you | had smartened |
| they | had smartened |
Conditional
Present
| I | would smarten |
| you | would smarten |
| he;she;it | would smarten |
| we | would smarten |
| you | would smarten |
| they | would smarten |
Perfect
| I | would have smartened |
| you | would have smartened |
| he;she;it | would have smartened |
| we | would have smartened |
| you | would have smartened |
| they | would have smartened |
Imperative
| you | smarten |
| we | Let's smarten |
| you | smarten |
Verbs conjugated like 'smarten'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'smarten'
swarten,
harten,
hearten,
martel,
salten,
scarcen,
sharpen,
shorten,
smallen,
smartle,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From smart + -en.
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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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:]
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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:]