Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. Once more; anew; again: start afresh.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Anew; again; after intermission.
Wiktionary
- adv. Anew; again; once more; newly.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. Anew; again; once more; newly.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. again but in a new or different way
Etymologies
- a- + fresh (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I want to bring young people in afresh so they can experience the beautiful work of Beuys and Acconci.”
“He vowed to begin afresh with a new wife, abandoning his daughter in search of elusive contentment.”
“We can begin afresh by asking our students to contemplate the range and extent of writing Shelley produced and got printed between the spring of 1810 (Zastrozzi), when he was seventeen, and May of 1813 (Queen Mab), when he was still twenty: two gothic novels, two volumes of verse, five political tracts/pamphlets, one satirical ballad, one 2800-line political-philosophical vision.”
“But surely, there afresh, is evoked the contribution that Canada's sons and daughters can give for freedom, for justice, for mercy, for a human civilization, for the right of the little nations to live, for the sacredness of the pledged word.”
“The moral influence of this kind of treatment is rubbed in afresh through every hour of prison life and has a bad moral influence on both prisoners and wardresses.”
“When we come to measure lengths, like a foot or yard or metre if you like; it is quite immaterial, if we had to start afresh from the beginning, what length we should take for our unit; we might take any length for the unit, provided we adhered to that unit.”
“The death and revival every five hundred years, and the reference to the sun, implies such a grand cycle commencing afresh from the same point in relation to the sun from which the previous one started.”
“This volume has been translated afresh from the Latin; it is not a revision of any earlier edition.”
“She may be given the name afresh, but now to be worn as a slave name chosen by her master, or, sometimes, presumably that she may better understand her dependence on men's will, and her subjection to male domination, she may be given another Earth-girl name.”
“A Kent staging of the Murdoch hearings would make you hear every word afresh, and register things starting with that Wendi fingernail poised to claw that you only half-notice when you're watching on telly.”
The Guardian: A Woman Killed with Kindness; Loyalty; Ghost – review
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘afresh’.
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Broken Hearts and Krazy Glue
The process of a finding your broken heart and gluing it back together.
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5000 FREE SAT Words
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Rita's List of Words
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complicated words
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