| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To renew, renovate, reconstruct, revamp or update.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To spatter or splash. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To dampen or moisten. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To dabble or drench.[Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Present participle conjugation of the verb freshen.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (freshen) | 1. Make (to feel) fresh.[Wordnet]. 2. Become or make oneself fresh again; "She freshened up after the tennis game".[Wordnet]. 3. Make fresh again.[Wordnet]. 4. To make fresh; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients; to make less salt; as, to freshen water, fish, or flesh.[Websters]. 5. To refresh; to revive.[Websters]. 6. 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.[Websters]. 7. To grow fresh; to lose saltness.[Websters]. 8. To grow brisk or strong; as, the wind freshens.[Websters]. 9. Base verb from the following inflections: freshening, freshened, freshens, freshener, fresheners, fresheningly and freshenedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being deepening.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being encouraging, energizing or stimulating. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being refreshing or vitalizing. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being motivating or inspiriting. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being wet or damp.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "FRESHENING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Specialty Definition: FRESHENING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Food & Agriculture | Rewounding and extending the face, i. e. removing the solidified oleoresin, a narrow band of bark, and, in some practices and methods, also of wood, so as to renew the flow of oleoresin. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: freshen
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Freshen up | 1: Make brighter and prettier. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| 2: Become or make oneself fresh again. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
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| Freshen Up Gum | 2 | Freshen Up Gum | 2 | |
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