freshen
verb (used with object)
to make fresh; refresh, revive, or renew.
is freshening
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present progressiveof freshen (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Employment is rising, and the flow of money is freshening.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the news that Canadians will be in the vanguard of invasion is freshening and heartening to a world which needs good news.
From Time Magazine Archive
The breeze is freshening, and the Costa Rica’s head lies nearly due north.
From The Hawaiian Archipelago by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
The wind is freshening, and it's blowing straight into the little cove here.
From The Meadow-Brook Girls Afloat by Janet Aldridge
It is eleven o'clock—dark night—and the breeze is freshening, when the first of the fleet heaves in sight… 6.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Stratton D. Brooks
