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freshen up meaning

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    Definition of freshen up in English Dictionary

  • VerbSGfreshens upPRfreshening upPT, PPfreshened up
    1. (intransitive) to wash or groom oneself in order to be more attractive.
      1. Women spend longer than men at freshening up before going out.
    2. (transitive) to freshen, make fresh, revivify, make new.
      1. After beating champions Chelsea 3-1 on Boxing Day, Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger made eight changes to his starting XI in an effort to freshen things up, with games against Birmingham and Manchester City to come in the next seven days.
  • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
    1. Phrases
      • Phrasal verbs
        • Phrasal verbs with particle (up)
      • Verbs
        • Phrasal verbs
          • Phrasal verbs with particle (up)
          • Intransitive verbs
            • Transitive verbs

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          Look-Alike Words
          1. en freeze up
          2. en fessed up
          3. en fesses up
          4. en freshener
          5. en freshened
          Source: Wiktionary

          Meaning of freshen up for the defined word.

          Grammatically, this idiom "freshen up" is a phrase, more specifically, a phrasal verb. It's also a verb, more specifically, a phrasal verb, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.
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