brisk up

English

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.
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 63:

     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.

   • 1923, George Washington Ogden, “Chapter 2”, in The Baron of Diamond Tail:

     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.