(v. t.) To make fresh; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients; to make less salt; as, to freshen water, fish, or flesh.
(v. t.) To refresh; to revive.
(v. t.) To relieve, as a rope, by change of place where friction wears it; or to renew, as the material used to prevent chafing; as, to freshen a hawse.
(v. i.) To grow fresh; to lose saltness.
(v. i.) To grow brisk or strong; as, the wind freshens.
Example Sentences:
(1) A 40-day adaptation of crabs to the freshened sea water results in an increase of maximal activity of Na,K-ATPase, but does not affect the enzyme affinity for ATP, Na+, K+, Mg2+ and ouabain, as well as its cooperative properties.
(2) The zesty, citrus whiff of oranges freshens up the January kitchen, drawing a line under heavy celebratory food, and lighting up the virtuous, but enticing path to a lighter, healthier diet.
(3) Heritability estimates, by year of freshening of daughter, were obtained from daughter-dam and granddaughter-granddam regressions using 61,482 triply matched first lactations of artificially sired Holstein cows obtained from the Northeast Dairy Records Processing Laboratory.
(4) One freshener contained sodium bisulfite and was used on one portion of lettuce.
(5) Children play on a concrete barrier freshened up by graffiti of a butterfly with pink wings, once a piece of the Berlin Wall.
(6) The fresheners were prepared and the lettuce was treated according to label instructions.
(7) Admittedly West Brom were obliging opponents and Tony Pulis shouldered the blame for not freshening his side up after last Monday’s 3-0 victory over Chelsea.
(8) Optimum freshening weight of a first calf heifer to maximize first lactation milk yield is between 544 and 567 kg.
(9) Group 1 included cows that were less than 6 wk from freshening when the experiment started and, therefore, received only one vaccination and cows that received two vaccinations with less than 5 days between the second vaccination and freshening.
(10) As there were few new records being released that fitted the style he wanted to play, he began re-editing old ones to freshen them up, splicing tape to make their instrumental passages longer, or snatches of vocal repeat over and over again, adding new sounds, playing them in the club with a drum machine underneath them to alter the sound of the beat: at first, he used the rhythm settings on a home organ – the mind boggles a bit as to what that must have sounded like – but soon moved on to the Roland TR-909 .
(11) In the wake of Convergence, a giant crossover that briefly sucked all its comics into an alternate universe, DC has just launched a splurge of new titles to freshen up its line.
(12) This prospective clinical trial concerns Paparella II ventilation tubes and demonstrated that (a) extracting (pulling) a tube from the tympanic membrane gives a 6-month perforation rate of 20%, (b) excising (freshening) the edge of the defect at the time of removal decreases the 6-month perforation rate to 3%, and (c) excising the edge significantly accelerates the healing of the tympanic membrane.
(13) The major current contributors to indoor odorants are human occupant odors (body odor), environmental tobacco smoke, volatile building materials, bio-odorants (particularly mold and animal-derived materials), air fresheners, deodorants, and perfumes.
(14) More recently I have campaigned against so-called “air fresheners” which pump out noxious fumes in an effort to cover everyday smells.
(15) A case is reported of a keratocyst treated by radical curettage with subsequent freshening of adjacent bone with a bur.
(16) In 2003, experts reported that the north Atlantic waters were freshening, with salt levels decreasing – a mild version of the scenario depicted in the Hollywood film The Day After Tomorrow where massive amounts of fresh water shut down warm ocean currents and cause temperatures to plunge.
(17) "Dawn freshens, her climb is done," intones the narrator, as Night Mail steams out of the darkness and into Scotland.
(18) Asked if 37-year-old breakfast DJ Chris Moyles, recently reported to have signed a new two-year deal with the station, was hindering a shift to a younger audience, Liddiment said: "It did freshen up its presenting team immediately after the trust review – a number of people left the station and a number of new people came.
(19) Whole blood and milk samples were obtained from heifers and a group of control cows 2 weeks prior to (blood only), at the time of, and 2 and 4 weeks after freshening.
(20) It was therefore proposed that an active muscle flap taken from the anterior part of the deltoid muscle (part III according to Fick) should be used to span the trophic defect in the rotator cuff, being sutured into healthy tissue following freshening up.
Freshet
Definition:
(a.) A stream of fresh water.
(a.) A flood or overflowing of a stream caused by heavy rains or melted snow; a sudden inundation.