freshen
English
verb
Definitions
- (intransitive) To become fresh.
- (intransitive) To become stronger.
- (intransitive) To begin or resume giving milk, especially after calving; to cause to resume giving milk.
- (transitive) To make fresh.
- (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) 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) To top up (primer#Etymology_2|primer) in a firearm.
Etymology
Suffix from English fresh (rude, inappropriate).
Origin
English
fresh
Gloss
rude, inappropriate
Concept
Semantic Field
Emotions and values
Ontological Category
Property
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- afresh English
- fresh English
- freshener English
- fresher English
- freshie English
- freshish English
- freshling English
- freshly English
- freshman English
- freshmint English
- freshness English
- freshperson English
- freshwater English
- refresh English
- refreshen English
- unfresh English
- fressh Middle English
- fresh lumpia Cebuano
- ffres Welsh
- freshi Swahili
- ফ্রেশ Bengali