Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To become fresh, as in vigor or appearance.
- intransitive verb To become brisk; increase in strength. Used of the wind.
- intransitive verb To lose saltiness.
- intransitive verb To calve and therefore begin to produce milk. Used of a cow.
- intransitive verb To make fresh.
- intransitive verb To add to or strengthen (a drink).
from The Century Dictionary.
- In surgery, to denude (a part) of its tegument so as to form a raw surface which will readily unite with a similar surface when the two are brought into apposition.
- To grow brisk; grow stronger or brighter: as, the wind freshens; the verdure freshens.
- To grow fresh; lose salt or saltness.
- To refresh; revive; renew.
- To make fresh; remove saltness from: as, to
freshen fish or flesh. - Nautical, to relieve, as a rope, by altering the position of a part exposed to friction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To grow fresh; to lose saltness.
- intransitive verb To grow brisk or strong.
- transitive verb To make fresh; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients; to make less salty.
- transitive verb obsolete To refresh; to revive.
- transitive verb (Naut.) To relieve, as a rope, by change of place where friction wears it; or to renew, as the material used to prevent chafing.
- transitive verb (Naut.) to shift Or restore it.
- transitive verb to pay out a little more cable, so as to bring the chafe on another part.
- transitive verb to increase the speed of a vessel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To become
fresh . - verb To make fresh.
- verb To
begin orresume givingmilk , especially aftercalving .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb become or make oneself fresh again
- verb make (to feel) fresh
- verb make fresh again
Etymologies
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Examples
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AtomFury: Also, shouldn't it be 'freshen' instead of 'fresh' in this sentence?
Use A Tea Bag To Freshen Small Spaces | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Sometimes it's added not to cover flaws, but just to "freshen" the design and increase sales.
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And they'll go in and they'll kind of freshen up, get out of their current garb and into fresh clothing and that kind of stuff, and that will take a while.
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"It's an item where you can put a unique twist to it to kind of freshen it and make it exciting again," she says.
The Daily News Tribune Homepage RSS Caryn Rousseau/ASSOCIATED PRESS 2010
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"It's an item where you can put a unique twist to it to kind of freshen it and make it exciting again," she says.
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"You can take some basics from your wardrobe and kind of freshen it up, and it's $10," she said, "rather than spending 40 or 50 on a whole brand-new outfit."
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"It's an item where you can put a unique twist to it to kind of freshen it and make it exciting again," she said.
Berks county news 2010
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"It's an item where you can put a unique twist to it to kind of freshen it and make it exciting again," she says.
AugustaChronicle.com 2010
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Bennett is not sure what that new format is, other than TVNZ wants to "freshen" the programme and to "contemporise it".
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"It's an item where you can put a unique twist to it to kind of freshen it and make it exciting again," she says.
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