Freshen

Pronunciation

• enPR: frÄ•shʹən

Origin

From fresh + -en.

Full definition of freshen

Verb

1. To become fresh.I'm going to go freshen up.
2. To make fresh.
• Dickens Little Dorrit|1|31So go and freshen yourself up, Amy; go and freshen yourself up, like a good girl.
3. (of a cow) To begin or resume giving milk, especially after calving.
• 1919 January, in The Chenango County Farm Bureau News, volume 5, number 1, page 7: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.
4. To make less salty; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients.to freshen water, fish, or flesh
5. To refresh; to revive.
6. (nautical) To relieve, as a rope, by change of place where friction wears it; or to renew, as the material used to prevent chafing.to freshen a hawse
7. To top up (a drink).