freshen

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To be refreshed.

   “Ah, how my spirit freshens, as I taste That life-restoring breeze!”

2. fiil To become cool.

   “1793, uncredited translator, The Natural History of Birds by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, London: A. Strahan and T. Cadell, Volume 4, “The Titiri, or Pipiri,” p. 468, They breed, says M. Deshayes, in the heats of autumn, and during the freshening air of winter, at St. Domingo …”

3. fiil To become not salty, to lose its salinity. (of water)

   “He coasted along the American Continent from the 60th degree of northern latitude, till he fell in with the Gulph of St. Lawrence, which he continued to navigate till he perceived the water to freshen;”

4. fiil To become stronger.

   “[...] the wind freshen’d, and carryed our Maintop-mast by the board; in which disaster, the man that was lower-most, and least in danger, fell over-board, and was drowned;”

5. fiil To begin or resume giving milk, especially after calving; to cause to resume giving milk.

   “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.”

6. fiil To refresh; to revive; to renew.

   “I’ve been pegging away at mathematics till my head is in a muddle, and I’m going to freshen my wits by a brisk turn.”

7. fiil To make cool.

   “[...] Natal, the glorious green country on the coast, lush, forested, watered, warm in the bitterest winter, in the summer freshened by breezes off the sea or the high mountains that bounded it inland.”

8. fiil To make green (vegetation that has become dry).

   “1915, Edward Sorenson, On the Wallaby, Sydney: The Catholic Press, Chapter 11, [The animals] were not valuable enough to be worth the trouble of saving until rain came to fill the holes and freshen the pastures.”

9. fiil To remove or cover unpleasant qualities such as staleness, bad odour or taste (in air, breath, water, etc.).

   “Mrs. Meyrick’s house was not noisy: the front parlor looked on the river, and the back on gardens, so that though she was reading aloud to her daughters, the window could be left open to freshen the air of the small double room where a lamp and two candles were burning.”

10. fiil To touch up (makeup); to give (a body part, especially the face) a quick wash.

    “It was after seven, she was freshening her lipstick and perking up her appearance [...]”

11. fiil To touch up the paint on (something).

    “I remember feeling disappointed [...] because the great sign of a trumpeter designed by Rooke, the Pre-Raphaelite artist, had been freshened by some inferior hand.”

12. fiil To give redness to (the face or cheeks of a person with light skin).

    “It was a breezy sunny day; the air freshened the girl's cheeks, and gracefully dishevelled their ringlets: […]”

13. fiil To make less salty; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients.

    “to freshen water, fish, or flesh”

14. fiil 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”

15. fiil To top up (a drink).

    “She dried her eyes and blew her nose and picked up her drink. ¶ Cass stared at her helplessly. “Let me freshen it for you,” she said, and took the glass into the kitchen.”

16. fiil To top up (primer) in a firearm.

    “Freshen the priming of your pistols—the mist of the falls is apt to dampen the brimstone—and stand firm for a close struggle, while I fire on their rush.”