refresh

[re·fresh]

To refresh is to renew or revive to make someone feel newly clean or invigorated. After a long, hot run, a glass of lemonade might refresh you.

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To make fresh again; to restore strength, spirit, animation, or the like, to; to relieve from fatigue or depression; to reinvigorate; to enliven anew; to reanimate; as, sleep refreshes the body and the mind.

Verb
make fresh again

Verb
become or make oneself fresh again; "She freshened up after the tennis game"

Verb
make (to feel) fresh; "The cool water refreshed us"

Verb
refresh one''s memory; "I reviewed the material before the test"


a.
To make fresh again; to restore strength, spirit, animation, or the like, to; to relieve from fatigue or depression; to reinvigorate; to enliven anew; to reanimate; as, sleep refreshes the body and the mind.

a.
To make as if new; to repair; to restore.

n.
The act of refreshing.


Refresh

Re*fresh" (r?*fr?sh"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Refreshed (-fr?sht"); p. pr. & vb. n. Refreshing.] [OE. refreshen, refreschen, OF. refreschir (cf. OF. rafraischir, rafreschir, F. rafrachir); pref. re- re- + fres fresh. F. frais. See Fresh, a.] 1. To make fresh again; to restore strength, spirit, animation, or the like, to; to relieve from fatigue or depression; to reinvigorate; to enliven anew; to reanimate; as, sleep refreshes the body and the mind. Chaucer.
Foer they have refreshed my spirit and yours.
And labor shall refresh itself with hope.
2. To make as if new; to repair; to restore.
The rest refresh the scaly snakes that fol The shield of Pallas, and renew their gold.
To refresh the memory, to quicken or strengthen it, as by a reference, review, memorandum, or suggestion. Syn. -- To cool; refrigerate; invigorate; revive; reanimate; renovate; renew; restore; recreate; enliven; cheer.

Refresh

Re*fresh", n. The act of refreshing. [Obs.] Daniel.

To make fresh again; to restore strength, spirit, animation, or the like, to; to relieve from fatigue or depression; to reinvigorate; to enliven anew; to reanimate; as, sleep refreshes the body and the mind.

The act of refreshing.

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Usage Examples

Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.

Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

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Other Usage Examples

I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

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