intransitive verb. To become fresh, as in vigor or appearance.

intransitive verb. To become brisk; increase in strength. Used of the wind.

intransitive verb. To lose saltiness.

intransitive verb. To calve and therefore begin to produce milk. Used of a cow.

intransitive verb. To make fresh.

intransitive verb. To add to or strengthen (a drink).

To grow brisk; grow stronger or brighter: as, the wind freshens; the verdure freshens.

To grow fresh; lose salt or saltness.

To refresh; revive; renew.

To make fresh; remove saltness from: as, to freshen fish or flesh.

Nautical, to relieve, as a rope, by altering the position of a part exposed to friction.

In surgery, to denude (a part) of its tegument so as to form a raw surface which will readily unite with a similar surface when the two are brought into apposition.

intransitive verb. To grow fresh; to lose saltness.

intransitive verb. To grow brisk or strong.

transitive verb. To make fresh; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients; to make less salty.

transitive verb. To refresh; to revive.

transitive verb. To relieve, as a rope, by change of place where friction wears it; or to renew, as the material used to prevent chafing.

transitive verb. to shift Or restore it.

transitive verb. to pay out a little more cable, so as to bring the chafe on another part.

transitive verb. to increase the speed of a vessel.

verb. To become fresh.

verb. To make fresh.

verb. To begin or resume giving milk, especially after calving.

verb. become or make oneself fresh again

verb. make (to feel) fresh

verb. make fresh again

"AtomFury: Also, shouldn't it be 'freshen' instead of 'fresh' in this sentence?"

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