Definition of Freshen

1. Verb. Make (to feel) fresh. "The performance is likely to freshen Sue"; "The cool water refreshed us"

Exact synonyms: Refresh
Specialized synonyms: Air, Air Out, Vent, Ventilate
Generic synonyms: Regenerate, Renew
Derivative terms: Freshener, Refresher, Refreshment

2. Verb. Become or make oneself fresh again. "She freshened up after the tennis game"
Exact synonyms: Freshen Up, Refresh, Refreshen
Specialized synonyms: Lave, Wash Up
Generic synonyms: Change
Derivative terms: Refreshment

3. Verb. Make fresh again.
Exact synonyms: Refresh, Refreshen
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Also: Freshen Up
Derivative terms: Freshener
Antonyms: Tire

Definition of Freshen

1. v. t. To make fresh; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients; to make less salt; as, to freshen water, fish, or flesh.

2. v. i. To grow fresh; to lose saltness.

Definition of Freshen

1. Verb. To become fresh. ¹

2. Verb. To make fresh. ¹

3. Verb. (context: of a cow) To begin or resume giving milk, especially after calving. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Freshen

1. to make or become fresh [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Freshen

1. 1. To make fresh; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients; to make less salt; as, to freshen water, fish, or flesh. 2. To refresh; to revive. 3. To relieve, as a rope, by change of place where friction wears it; or to renew, as the material used to prevent chafing; as, to freshen a hawse. To freshen ballast, to shift Or restore it. To freshen the hawse, to pay out a little more cable, so as to bring the chafe on another part. To freshen the way, to increase the speed of a vessel. Origin: Freshened; Freshening. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Freshen

fresh breeze
fresh country eggs
fresh fish
fresh food
fresh foods
fresh frozen plasma
fresh gale
fresh legs
fresh meat
fresh off the boat
fresh out of
fresh start
fresh water
freshe
freshed
freshen (current term)
freshen up
freshened
freshener
fresheners
freshening
freshenings
freshens
fresher
freshers
freshers' week
freshes
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freshet
freshets

Literary usage of Freshen

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Seasons by James Thomson, Patrick Murdoch (1842)
"... o'er the freshen'cl world. The stealing shower is scarce to patter heard, By such as wander through the forest walks, Beneath the umbrageous multitude ..."

2. Journal of a Tour Through the United States, and in Canada, Made During the by Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny (1843)
"As the evening advanced, the wind began to freshen, till about ten o'clock, when it blew such a gale as I shall not soon forget. Still, however, it was in ..."

3. The Improved Housewife: Or Book of Receipts, with Engravings for Marketing by A. L. Webster (1855)
"... keep the cheese in a cool dry place. Cheese with insects, if kept till cold weather, will be free of them. 660. To freshen Salt Suffer. ..."

4. A Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia, Beginning October 20, 1737: By by William Stephens (1906)
"Towards Evening, on the Flood being made, a new Breeze sprung up from the NE which freshen'd very agreeably, and in the Dusk, being off Tybee about three ..."

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