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 →

2) To freshen up is to wash quickly and tidy yourself. tree →

3) (weather) When the wind freshens, it gets stronger and cooler. tree →

4) To freshen a drink is to add more to it. tree →

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 →
• Let me freshen up before we go out. tree →
• Mum bought an air freshener for the car. tree →
• The wind freshened in the afternoon. tree →
• A new coat of paint freshened the old fence. tree →
• The waiter freshened our water. tree →
• By that time the wind had freshened, and it was impossible to put back for him." tree →

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.
• "Spend a penny", "powder my nose" and "freshen up" can all mean go to the toilet.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «freshen» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.