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brisk up

brisk up verb: to enliven or invigorate.

Verb

brisk up (third-person singular simple present brisks up, present participle brisking up, simple past and past participle brisked up)

  1. To enliven or invigorate.
    • Dan brisked up a bit at the sight of two men before the window displaying the white wolf, evidently engaged in a wrangle over the merits of that historic beast.1923, George Washington Ogden, “Chapter 2”, in The Baron of Diamond Tail
    • With the setting sun sending long shadows loping ahead of them over the smooth hillocks of the downs, they came up with the lagoon; a contentful return home, with appetite brisked up by a ten-mile walk, and plenty of food to satisfy it.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 63

Forms of brisk up

third-person singular presentbrisks up
present participlebrisking up
past participlebrisked up
pastbrisked up

Questions about brisk up

What does brisk up mean?
Brisk up means to enliven or invigorate.
What part of speech is brisk up?
Brisk up is a verb.
What is the past tense of brisk up?
The past tense of brisk up is brisked up.

Words near brisk up in the dictionary

  1. brises-bises
  2. Briseus
  3. brishings
  4. brisingid
  5. brisk
  6. brisk up
  7. brisked
  8. brisked up
  9. brisken
  10. briskened
  11. briskening

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