Lexic.us

Definition of Freshen up

1. Verb. Make brighter and prettier. "My wife wants us to renovate"

2. Verb. Become or make oneself fresh again. "She freshened up after the tennis game"

Definition of Freshen up

1. Verb. (intransitive) to wash or groom oneself in order to be more attractive ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) to freshen, make fresh, revivify, make new. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Freshen Up

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 freshen up (current term) freshened freshener fresheners freshening

freshenings freshens fresher freshers freshers' week freshes freshest freshet freshets freshie

Literary usage of Freshen up

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

1. Retail Shoe Salesmanship by George F. Hamilton, Frank Butterworth, H. T. Conner, A. H. Geuting (1920)
"CHAPTER IX SHOWING THE GOODS FRESHEN-UP THE SELLING TALK The purpose of the selling talk is to assist the customer along in the sale from the start up to ..."

2. The Yellow Book (1895)
"Oh, excellent report, never been selling better, largely owing to that new poster he says ; it just wanted that to freshen up the sale a bit. ..."

3. Characteristic Materia Medica by William H. Burt (1873)
"G. " Her haemorrhage seems to pass into a corrosive, ichorous discharge, and then to freshen up again, and go on."—G. " Continual haemorrhage from the tumor ..."

4. Homœopathic Therapeutics by Samuel Lilienthal (1890)
"Offensive black clots, mixed with water; excoriating lochia almost ceased to flow, when they freshen up and become more profuse and bloody; and again almost ..."

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