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freshen up

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Verb1.freshen up - make brighter and prettier; "we refurbished the guest wing"; "My wife wants us to renovate"
refurbish, renovate
gentrify - renovate so as to make it conform to middle-class aspirations; "gentrify a row of old houses"; "gentrify the old center of town"
regenerate, renew - reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new; "We renewed our friendship after a hiatus of twenty years"; "They renewed their membership"
2.freshen up - become or make oneself fresh again; "She freshened up after the tennis game"
refreshen, freshen, refresh
wash up, lave - wash one's face and hands; "She freshened up in the bathroom"
change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night"


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In a week or two now, cents, nickels, dimes, quarters, and half-dollars, and also a trifle of gold, would be trickling in thin but steady streams all through the commercial veins of the kingdom, and I looked to see this new blood freshen up its life.
A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context
Next we slid into the river and had a swim, so as to freshen up and cool off; then we set down on the sandy bottom where the water was about knee deep, and watched the day- light come.
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It was first towards evening when the sun was down, that they began to freshen up again.
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