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-) Verb.

-) Pronunciation: brɪsk.

-) Etymology: from the adjective BRISK.

-) Preterite tense, preterite participle: brisked. 

-) Present participle: brisking.

-) It is dated from the end of 1500.

-) Transitive: -) 1. To render (an animated being) brisk.

-) Synonyms for “brisk”: quicken, bestir.

-) Antonyms: mope, torporize, torpefy, numb.

-) Translation: attivizzare, dinamizzare, in Italian; dynamiser, in French; dinamizar, in Spanish.

A cup of wine that brisks up me.

G. Thornbury… Art and Nature… 1856

Next morning, Laurance woke him at eight, and Dan grumbled about getting up, although he was assured that he had slept the clock round. However a cold bath soon brisked him up, and he came down to the sitting-room with an excellent appetite for breakfast.

F. Hume… The Mystery Queen… 1912

-) 2. To make (wind, fire, etc) brisk.

-) 3. (Of someone) to effect (something) with briskness.

Modestine brisked up her pace for perhaps three steps, and then relapsed into her former minuet.

Stevenson… Travels… 1879

-) 4. To translocate, move or transfer (something or someone) with briskness.

-) Intransitive: -) 1. (Of someone) to become brisk; to behave or move briskly; to change from one state of dullness to one of briskness, promptness, activity, etc.

-) Synonyms: bustle, bestir.

-) Antonyms: laze, dull.

Our horses brisked up wonderfully, the grey forgot that he was bearing so fat a man as Mr. Briggs, the chestnut was oblivious of his packs, and all at a swinging canter came up to the farm door.

S. Baring-Gould… Iceland… 1863

"Well, I can't understand all that," said […] John, with rueful sulkiness, from which he brisked up to ask… 

W. Howells… Questionable Shapes… 1903

… I brisked out of bed…

H. Wilson… Ruggles… 1915

-) 2. (Of fact, action, thing, etc.) to become brisk.

-) Antonym: dull.

Things have been dull all the fall, but I thought they'd brisk up come winter. They haven't.

Howells… The Rise… 1884

-) 3. (Of wind, fire, etc.) to become brisk.

-) Antonyms: dull, weaken.

-) English words derived from “brisk”: brisk (adj.), brisken, briskening, briskish, briskly, briskness, brisky, brisked, brisking

 

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