Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: freshen
IPA transcription: [fɹ'ɛʃən]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: refresh, freshen, refreshen
    Meaning: make fresh again
  • Synonyms: freshen, refresh, refreshen, freshen_up
    Meaning: become or make oneself fresh again; "She freshened up after the tennis game"
  • Synonyms: refresh, freshen
    Meaning: make (to feel) fresh; "The cool water refreshed us"
Usage examples
  • Leslie took the children up-stairs to wash their faces and freshen up, and Julia Cloud led her sister to the lovely guest-room that was always in perfect order.
  • We stood on to the southward and westward during the remainder of that day, the wind continuing still to freshen, and the sea getting up with most fearful rapidity.
  • It's your eight hours out to-night, my lad, and if the breeze should happen to freshen about sundown, and that chap comes after us--and, by the piper, he means that same, for I'm blest if he isn't in stays--you'll need to keep both eyes open all your watch."
  • "Perperia all fresh bedewed, Freshen all the neighbourhood; By the woods, on the highway, As thou goest, to God now pray: O my God, upon the plain, Send thou us a still, small rain; That the fields may fruitful be, And vines in blossom we may see; That the grain be full and sound, And wealthy grow the folks around."