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English
Etymology
From smart + -en.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsmɑːt(ə)n/
- Hyphenation: smart‧en
Verb
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.
- (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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Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch smarten, smerten, from Old Dutch *smertan, from Proto-West Germanic *smertan, from Proto-Germanic *smertaną.
Verb
smarten
- (transitive, archaic, poetic) to grieve, inflict suffering
- Zijn vertrek smartte mij zeer. ― His departure grieved me greatly.
Conjugation
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
smarten
- plural of smart
Middle English
Verb
smarten
- Alternative form of smerten