freshen
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fresh
English -en
English freshen
From fresh + -en.
Inflected forms:
form: freshens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: freshening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: freshened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: freshened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To become fresh.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Ah, how my spirit freshens, as I taste
That life-restoring breeze!
He descended and came to a small basin of sea enclosed by the cliffs. Troy’s nature freshened within him; he thought he would rest and bathe here before going farther.
gloss: To become fresh.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 1793, uncredited translator, The Natural History of Birds by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, London: A. Strahan and T. Cadell, Volume 4, “The Titiri, or Pipiri,” p. 468,
They breed, says M. Deshayes, in the heats of autumn, and during the freshening air of winter, at St. Domingo …
We set out at once, swinging along at a good gait in the freshening afternoon, walking now the track, now the road which skirted it [...]
A little later, Harry sensed, by a freshening of the air, that they had reached the edge of the forest.
gloss: To become fresh.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He coasted along the American Continent from the 60th degree of northern latitude, till he fell in with the Gulph of St. Lawrence, which he continued to navigate till he perceived the water to freshen;
They [...] drank from fresh-water lakes formed where old salt ice had freshened and melted [...]
gloss: To become stronger.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: [...] the wind freshen’d, and carryed our Maintop-mast by the board; in which disaster, the man that was lower-most, and least in danger, fell over-board, and was drowned;
[...] he call’d his chief Mate as he was going off from the Watch, and ask’d him how all things far’d; who answer’d, that all was well, and the Gale freshen’d, and they run at a great Rate;
All day the breeze held in the same point, and rather freshened than died down; and towards afternoon, a swell began to set in from round the outer Hebrides.
As he gazed up, the night wind freshened and the rustling of leaves became louder and higher, with a semblance of urgent repetition [...]
gloss: To begin or resume giving milk, especially after calving; to cause to resume giving milk.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: For Sale—Three registered holstein cows. Due to freshen the first of Jan. February and March. Prices that will sell. Age three and five years. Eugune Gibson, Smyrna.
The cow freshened the week before Christmas. The calf was a heifer and there was rejoicing on Baxter’s Island.
It was a miserably small two-week net for eight good Holsteins, but they were near the end of their lactation period; soon he’d have to arrange for freshening them again.
gloss: To make fresh.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 1657, John Davies (translator), Astrea by Honoré d'Urfé, London: H. Moseley et al., Volume 2, Part 3, Book 1, pp. 122-123,
… the good Druid went to seeke out some hearbs by the bank sides, which he knew were good to be applyed unto my wounds, and which would a little freshen and invigorate my spirits;
I’ve been pegging away at mathematics till my head is in a muddle, and I’m going to freshen my wits by a brisk turn.
They went into the little room again at about a quarter to nine, freshened by a meal in the canteen and a cigarette.
New hope freshened his heart.
gloss: To make fresh.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [...] Natal, the glorious green country on the coast, lush, forested, watered, warm in the bitterest winter, in the summer freshened by breezes off the sea or the high mountains that bounded it inland.
gloss: To make fresh.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 1915, Edward Sorenson, On the Wallaby, Sydney: The Catholic Press, Chapter 11,
[The animals] were not valuable enough to be worth the trouble of saving until rain came to fill the holes and freshen the pastures.
gloss: To make fresh.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Mrs. Meyrick’s house was not noisy: the front parlor looked on the river, and the back on gardens, so that though she was reading aloud to her daughters, the window could be left open to freshen the air of the small double room where a lamp and two candles were burning.
[...] from the earliest time that he could remember, there had lain pleasantly in the end of his nose the various scents of mint—used to freshen the water in the ewers—or of basil, camomile, fennel, hysop and lavender—which he had been taught to strew on the rushy floors [...]
Nowadays, she’d be the kind of woman who’d carry one of those breath-freshening atomizers in her purse—gassing herself with the atomizer, all day long, just in case someone might be moved to spontaneously kiss her.
Tajirika found him trying to freshen the air in the chamber with perfume, but no amount of perfume could quite remove the stink in the offices of the Ruler.
gloss: To make fresh.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It was after seven, she was freshening her lipstick and perking up her appearance [...]
[...] I knew that their laughter was real and that their lives were cheerful comedies, interrupted only by costume changes and freshening of make-up.
“Grace is upstairs, freshening her eyes. [...]”
[He] stepped with terrible suddenness into what proved to be no more than a trickle of freezing water, enough at any rate to freshen his armpits, crotch and feet.
gloss: To make fresh.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I remember feeling disappointed [...] because the great sign of a trumpeter designed by Rooke, the Pre-Raphaelite artist, had been freshened by some inferior hand.
In staging the school’s Christmas play the whole town helped or meddled: older men repaired the platform, assembled the crib; young ones fashioned new innkeepers and freshened the masks with paint.
gloss: To give redness to (the face or cheeks of a person with light skin).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It was a breezy sunny day; the air freshened the girl's cheeks, and gracefully dishevelled their ringlets: […]
The wind had freshened his warm complexion as it freshens the glow of a brand.
‘Might copper beech trees mark the route?’ suggested Adelaide, her dumpling countenance freshened by the excitement this thought induced.
gloss: To make less salty; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to freshen water, fish, or flesh
Let me remark, that the great exercise used by these volunteer adventurers; their quantity of vegetable food; their freshening their salt provision, by boiling it in water, and mixing it with flour; their beverage of whey; and their total abstinence from spirituous liquors—are the happy preservatives from the scurvy, which brought all the preceding adventurers, who perished, to their miserable end.
[...] ordinarily a wizard looks after such small conveniences by way of spells, the very least and commonest kind of spells, and indeed it takes little more magic to freshen seawater and so save the bother of carrying fresh water.
gloss: To relieve, as a rope, by change of place where friction wears it; or to renew, as the material used to prevent chafing.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to freshen a hawse
[...] when a ship is to lie with all winds that may blow, the best anchor and open hawse should be towards the worst wind that may blow, to raise the waves, and give the ship a pitching motion [...] and must leave no more of the smallest moorings within board, than just enough to freshen the hawse on occasion;
gloss: To top up (a drink).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She dried her eyes and blew her nose and picked up her drink. ¶ Cass stared at her helplessly. “Let me freshen it for you,” she said, and took the glass into the kitchen.
“Get in here and freshen my glass. You’ve got lousy manners for the son of a front-family, and just a^([sic]) hour since we’re engaged...”
gloss: To top up (primer) in a firearm.
pos: verb
tags: historical
transitive
examples: Freshen the priming of your pistols—the mist of the falls is apt to dampen the brimstone—and stand firm for a close struggle, while I fire on their rush.
She pushed her tomahawk and fighting knife into the back of her belt, opened her powder horn and freshened the priming in her rifle and pistols [...]
Derived words: freshener
freshening
freshen up
refreshen
unfreshened
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: թարմանալ
roman: tʻarmanal
lang: Bulgarian
word: ободрявам се
roman: obodrjavam se
lang: Bulgarian
word: освежавам се
roman: osvežavam se
lang: Irish
word: beoigh
lang: Macedonian
word: се освежува
roman: se osvežuva
lang: Macedonian
word: се освежи
roman: se osveži
lang: Armenian
word: թարմացնել
roman: tʻarmacʻnel
lang: Bulgarian
word: ободрявам
roman: obodrjavam
lang: Bulgarian
word: освежавам
roman: osvežavam
lang: Irish
word: úraigh
lang: Irish
word: beoigh
lang: Macedonian
word: освежува
roman: osvežuva
lang: Macedonian
word: освежи
roman: osveži
lang: Romanian
word: împrospăta
lang: Yiddish
word: פֿרישן
roman: frishn