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freshen up

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freshen (yourself) up
to wash your hands or face or use the toilet. Velma said she needed to freshen up before supper.

freshen up something
to add to something to make it better or more interesting. She decided to wear her large silver pin to help freshen up the black dress. I'm getting another drink — can I freshen yours up?
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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.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark View in context
It was first towards evening when the sun was down, that they began to freshen up again.
Andersen's Fairy Tales by Andersen, Hans Christian View in context
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