freshen

Other forms of freshen

past tense

freshenned·

present participle

freshenning·

third person

freshens·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about freshen

What does freshen mean?

freshen means "make (to feel) fresh". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in freshen?

freshen has 2 syllables: fres-hen. The stress falls on "fres". In IPA it is /ˈfɹɛʃən/.

What is another word for freshen?

Close synonyms include refresh, refresh, refreshen, freshen up, refresh. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is freshen a common word?

freshen is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.