FRESHEN
refresh, freshen, refreshen
(verb) make fresh again
freshen, refresh, refreshen, freshen up
(verb) become or make oneself fresh again; “She freshened up after the tennis game”
refresh, freshen
(verb) make (to feel) fresh; “The cool water refreshed us”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
freshen (third-person singular simple present freshens, present participle freshening, simple past and past participle freshened)
(intransitive) To become fresh.
To be refreshed.
To become cool.
(of water) To become not salty, to lose its salinity.
(intransitive, of wind) To become stronger.
(intransitive, transitive, of a cow) To begin or resume giving milk, especially after calving; to cause to resume giving milk.
(transitive) To make fresh.
To refresh; to revive; to renew.
To make cool.
To make green (vegetation that has become dry).
To remove or cover unpleasant qualities such as staleness, bad odour or taste (in air, breath, water, etc.).
To touch up (makeup); to give (a body part, especially the face) a quick wash.
To touch up the paint on (something).
(transitive) To give redness to (the face or cheeks of a person with light skin).
(transitive) To make less salty; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients.
(transitive, nautical) To relieve, as a rope, by change of place where friction wears it; or to renew, as the material used to prevent chafing.
(transitive) To top up (a drink).
(transitive, historical) To top up (primer) in a firearm.
Anagrams
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Source: Wiktionary
Fresh"en, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Freshened; p. pr. & vb. n. Freshening]
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. [Obs.] Spenser.
3. (Naut.)
Definition: 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. Totten. To freshen ballast (Naut.), 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. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Fresh"en, v. i.
1. To grow fresh; to lose saltness.
2. To grow brisk or strong; as, the wind freshens.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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