freshen
suomi-englanti sanakirjafreshen englannista suomeksi
piristää
raikastaa
Verbi
freshen englanniksi
To become fresh.
To be refreshed.
{{quote-book|en|year=1799|author=Samuel Jackson Pratt|title=Gleanings in England|location=London|publisher=T.N. Longman and O. Rees|section=Volume 4, Letter 3, p. 39|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004853685.0001.000
(RQ:Hardy Far from the Madding Crowd)
To become cool.
1793, uncredited translator, ''The Natural History of Birds'' by (w), London: A. Strahan and T. Cadell, Volume 4, “The Titiri, or Pipiri,” p.(nbs)468,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004893396.0001.004
- They breed, says M. Deshayes, ''in the heats of autumn, and during the freshening air of winter,'' at St. Domingo ...
{{quote-text|en|year=1927|author=Frederick Philip Grove|title=A Search for America|section=Book 4, Chapter 2|url=http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300631h.html
(RQ:Rowling Harry Potter)
(quote-text)’s Last Voyage, to the Pacific Ocean|location=London|publisher=E. Newbery|section=Introduction, pp. xxx-xxxi|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004895036.0001.000
{{quote-book|en|year=1949|author=Jim Kjelgaard|title=Kalak of the Ice|location=New York|publisher=Holiday House|chapter=1|url=https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20111104/html.php
To become stronger.
{{quote-book|en|year=1674|author=James Janeway|title=Mr. James Janeway’s Legacy to His Friends|location=London|publisher=Dorman Newman|chapter=Remarkable Sea Deliverances|page=53|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A46665.0001.001
{{quote-text|en|year=1727|author=Daniel Defoe|title=An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004843878.0001.000|chapter=11|page=214|location=London
(RQ:Stevenson Kidnapped)
{{quote-book|en|year=1974|author=Richard Adams|title=Shardik|location=London|publisher=Oneworld|year_published=2014|chapter=7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SVMQBwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false
To begin or resume giving milk, especially after calving; to cause to resume giving milk.
1919 January, in ''The Chenango County Farm Bureau News'', volume 5, number 1, page 7:
- 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.
{{quote-book|en|year=1938|author=Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings|title=The Yearling|location=New York|publisher=Grosset and Dunlap|chapter=26|page=329|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.85632/page/n5
{{quote-text|en|year=1955|author=Cyril M. Kornbluth|title=Not This August|location=Garden City, NY|publisher=Doubleday|section=Book 1, Chapter 4|url=https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20110709/html.php
To make fresh.
1657, (w) (translator), ''(w)'' by (w), London: H. Moseley ''et al.'', Volume 2, Part 3, Book 1, pp.(nbs)122-123,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A71189.0001.001
- ... the good Druid went to seeke out some hearbs by the bank sides, which he knew were good to be applyed unto my wounds, and which would a little freshen and invigorate my spirits;
(RQ:Alcott Little Women)
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=Heinemann|chapter=6|url=https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20120508/html.php
(quote-book)|location=New York|publisher=Crest|year_published=1965|chapter=5|page=89|url=https://archive.org/details/seizedaywiththre00bell
To make cool.
{{quote-book|en|year=1973|author=Jan Morris|title=Heaven’s Command: An Imperial Progress|location=New York|publisher=Harcourt Brace Jovanovich|chapter=3|page=60|url=https://archive.org/details/heavenscommandim00morr
To make green (vegetation that has become dry).
1915, (w), ''On the Wallaby'', Sydney: The Catholic Press, Chapter(nbs)11,http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks14/1400721h.html
- animals were not valuable enough to be worth the trouble of saving until rain came to fill the holes and freshen the pastures.
To remove or cover unpleasant qualities such as staleness, bad odour or taste (in air, breath, water, etc.).
(RQ:Eliot Daniel Deronda)
{{quote-book|en|year=1958|author=T. H. White|title=The Once and Future King|location=New York|publisher=Berkley|chapter=20|page=179|url=https://archive.org/details/oncefutureking00whit_1
{{quote-book|en|year=1989|author=John Irving|title=A Prayer for Owen Meany|location=New York|publisher=William Morrow|chapter=7|page=333|url=https://archive.org/details/prayerforowenmea00irv_ic5
{{quote-book|en|year=2007|author=Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o|title=Wizard of the Crow|location=New York|publisher=Knopf Doubleday|year_published=2008|chapter=17|page=392|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k5snFSTVhOsC&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false
To up (makeup); to give (a body part, especially the face) a quick wash.
(quote-text)|url=https://archive.org/details/breakfastattiffa00capo_1|chapter=8|page=56|publisher=Penguin|year_published=1961
{{quote-text|en|year=1969|author=Maya Angelou|title=I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings|url=https://archive.org/details/iknowwhycagedbir00ange_1|chapter=35|page=266|publisher=Random House|location=New York
{{quote-text|en|year=1971|author=Alice Munro|chapter=Heirs of the Living Body|title=Lives of Girls and Women|url=https://archive.org/details/livesofgirlswome00munr_2|page=57
(quote-book)|location=New York|publisher=Knopf|chapter=Reflections: Logicon Project Minus-One|page=367|url=https://archive.org/details/ratnersstar00deli_2
To touch up the paint on (something).
(RQ:Yeats Trembling of the Veil)
(quote-text)|url=https://archive.org/details/paradise00morr|page=185|publisher=Knopf|year_published=1998|location=New York
To give redness to (the face or cheeks of a person with light skin).
(RQ:Charlotte Bronte Shirley)
(RQ:Hardy Pair of Blue Eyes)
{{quote-text|en|year=1986|author=William Trevor|chapter=The News from Ireland|title=The News from Ireland and Other Stories|url=https://archive.org/details/newsfromirelando00trev|page=15|publisher=Viking|location=New York
To make less salty; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients.
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{{quote-text|en|year=1784|author=Thomas Pennant|title=Arctic Zoology|location=London|section=Volume 1, Introduction, p. clxxxviii|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004875368.0001.001
{{quote-book|en|year=1968|author=Ursula K. Le Guin|title=A Wizard of Earthsea|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=FD72ekYZqIkC&printsec=frontcoverv=onepage&q&f=false|chapter=10|page=196|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|year_published=2012|location=Boston
To relieve, as a rope, by change of place where friction wears it; or to renew, as the material used to prevent chafing.Benjamin J. Totten, ''Naval Text-Book'', Boston: Little and Brown, 1841, p.(nbs)329.https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008602848
''to freshen a hawse''
(quote-book)|title=A Treatise on Practical Seamanship|publisher=Liverpool|chapter=On Mooring Ships|page=73|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004839280.0001.000
To up (a drink).
(quote-text)|location=New York|publisher=Dial|year_published=1963|section=Book 1, Chapter 2, p. 89|url=https://archive.org/details/anothercountr00bald
{{quote-book|en|year=1967|author=James Purdy|title=Eustace Chisholm and the Works|location=London|publisher=GMP Publishers|year_published=1984|section=Part 1, Chapter 10, p. 99|url=https://archive.org/details/eustacechisholmw00purd
(RQ:Cooper Last of the Mohicans)
{{quote-text|en|year=1979|author=Aaron Fletcher|title=The Mountain Breed|location=New York|publisher=Dell|section=Part 5, Chapter 19, p. 329|url=https://archive.org/details/mountainbreed00flet