Get clean, with "up"

Usage examples of freshen.

I can freshen up while you go belowstairs to make your final preparations for the journey.

The sound differed from the hiss of escaping air that she sometimes heard in the narrower passages where, in response to the dictates of Bernoulli, the constant zephyr freshened into something stronger.

The port of Bilbao was just a speck in the distance, the breeze was freshening, and their boat was bobbing up and down.

Some merchants invent brands, as the dina was invented, in order to freshen the nature of their merchandise and stimulate sales.

Back in the lab, the freshened Stephie tries to engage Gus in a deep conversation about the loss of heterozygosity or some other such nonsense.

With the air-conditioning on high, she sprays breath freshener on a handkerchief and holds it over her nose.

The freshening breeze carried snatches of song from alehouses and cries of newspages as they trailed back to their offices for evening accounting, the savor of meat stewing with onion and garlic, and the wild clean scent of the grassland that stretched to the sea.

They are about a mile astern now, I should say, and unless the wind freshens up a bit they will be alongside in about twenty minutes.

At midnight the wind freshened, and before long the cracking of the masts, and the rattling of the cordage, and groaning of the timbers, awakened the passengers, who speedily made their appearance on deck-- at least Paganel, Glenarvan, the Major and Robert.

In the vast ballroom over the medley of entwined revolving couples, punkahs had been fixed, to clear and freshen the languid air, and these huge fans, moving with incredible slowness, drove a faint refreshing draught down over the sea of white shirt-fronts and bare necks, and freed the scent from innumerable flowers.

Although Erdomese did not take baths on the wholea complete immersion for any length of time would remove naturally protective oils and could lead to an ugly and sometimes painful itchy skin condition akin to mangespraying their faces and upper torsos with a showerlike wand could have a cooling and freshening effect.

Moist towelettes were designed for freshening your hands after eating a Big Mac in the car.

I dressed carefully, and made myself look less weary, and to freshen myself up I had a long drive in an open carriage.

Minutes later, clad in the red silk dress, Caralie stood in the bathroom and freshened her makeup.

Could a Chancellor's flaxen-haired daughter, freshened by a strapping young Doctor of Philosophy like those in the Tales, surpass Mary Appenzeller's output of seventy-three pounds of butterfat in her first year's milking?