| freshen | 1. To make fresh; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients; to make less salt; as, to freshen water, fish, or flesh. 2. To refresh; to revive. 3. 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. To freshen ballast, to shift Or restore it. To freshen the hawse, to pay out a little more cable, so as to bring the chafe on another part. To freshen the way, to increase the speed of a vessel. Origin: Freshened; Freshening. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| freshening | Preparation of an open, partially healed wound for secondary closure by removal of fibrin, granulations, and early scar tissue. (05 Mar 2000) |