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# freshen

«freshen» in Mova's school dictionary: **to make it cleaner, cooler or newer: «freshen the room»** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (freshen, freshens, freshened, freshening)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To freshen something is to make it cleaner, cooler or newer: «freshen the room». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freshen/#m1)

2) To freshen up is to wash quickly and tidy yourself. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freshen/#m2)

3) (weather) When the wind freshens, it gets stronger and cooler. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freshen/#m3)

4) To freshen a drink is to add more to it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freshen/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

Used in everyday life: «freshen up before dinner», «air freshener», «freshen the air». In weather reports: «winds will freshen». It tells the reader something is made fresh again.

### examples

- Open the window to freshen the room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freshen/#x1)
- Let me freshen up before we go out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freshen/#x2)
- Mum bought an air freshener for the car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freshen/#x3)
- The wind freshened in the afternoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freshen/#x4)
- A new coat of paint freshened the old fence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freshen/#x5)
- The waiter freshened our water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freshen/#x6)
- By that time the wind had freshened, and it was impossible to put back for him." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freshen/#x7)

### note

Regular verb. «Freshen up» is a phrasal verb (wash and tidy). Noun: freshener (air freshener). Related adjective: fresh.

### In the corpora

- ["Freshen up" usually means go to the toilet and wash, often before a meal or meeting.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/6-toilet-words/12/)
- ["Spend a penny", "powder my nose" and "freshen up" can all mean go to the toilet.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/41-olympiad-euphemism-detective/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «freshen» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freshen/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.