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To make fresh; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients; to make less salt; as, to freshen water, fish, or flesh.

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  1. v. t. To make fresh; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients; to make less salt; as, to freshen water, fish, or flesh.
  2. v. t. To refresh; to revive.
  3. 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.
  4. v. i. To grow fresh; to lose saltness.
  5. v. i. To grow brisk or strong; as, the wind freshens.
  6. v. make (to feel) fresh
  7. v. become or make oneself fresh again
  8. v. make fresh again
  9. To relieve, as a rope, by change of place where friction wearsit; or to renew, as the material used to prevent chafing; as, tofreshen a hawse. Totten. To freshen ballast (Naut.), to shift Orrestore it.-- To freshen the hawse, to pay out a little more cable, so as tobring the chafe on another part.-- To freshen the way, to increase the speed of a vessel. Ham. Nav.Encyc.
  10. v:100 v. become or make oneself fresh again