Usually means: Make clean, new, or invigorated.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word freshen:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. freshen: Merriam-Webster
  2. freshen: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. freshen: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. freshen: Collins English Dictionary
  5. freshen: Vocabulary.com
  6. Freshen, freshen: Wordnik
  7. freshen: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. freshen: Wiktionary
  9. freshen: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. freshen: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. freshen: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. freshen: Dictionary.com
  13. freshen: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Freshen: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. freshen: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. freshen: Rhymezone
  17. freshen: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. freshen: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. freshen: FreeDictionary.org
  20. freshen: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. freshen: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. freshen: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. freshen: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. freshen: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. freshen: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. freshen: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. freshen: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. freshen: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See freshened as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To become fresh.
verb:  To be refreshed.
verb:  To become cool.
verb:  To become not salty, to lose its salinity. (of water)
verb:  (intransitive, of wind) To become stronger.
verb:  (intransitive, transitive, of a cow) To begin or resume giving milk, especially after calving; to cause to resume giving milk.
verb:  (transitive) To make fresh.
verb:  To refresh; to revive; to renew.
verb:  To make cool.
verb:  To make green (vegetation that has become dry).
verb:  To remove or cover unpleasant qualities such as staleness, bad odour or taste (in air, breath, water, etc.).
verb:  To touch up (makeup); to give (a body part, especially the face) a quick wash.
verb:  To touch up the paint on (something).
verb:  (transitive) To give redness to (the face or cheeks of a person with light skin).
verb:  (transitive) To make less salty; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients.
verb:  (transitive, nautical) To relieve, as a rope, by change of place where friction wears it; or to renew, as the material used to prevent chafing.
verb:  (transitive) To top up (a drink).
verb:  (transitive, historical) To top up (primer) in a firearm.

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