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Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Archaic To refresh with food and drink.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
- v. archaic, transitive To refresh; restore after hunger or fatigue.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. Archaic To restore after hunger or fatigue; to refresh.
Etymologies
- Latin reficere, refect-, to refresh : re-, re- + facere, to make; see dhē- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“One of the great things about riesling is how wonderfully it can refect the site that the grapes are grown upon.”
“Favorability ratings and, most importantly, state polls tend to refect the same thing.”
“The billing amounts appearing on a typcal patients bill are infact a function of Federal CMS accounting standards and refect about 250% of actual cost.”
“Obviously John Roberts with his comments about Rush Limbaugh being thin skined, is another example of him not being a NEWS person, and purposely spinning comments to refect his personal thoughts.”
“Reid also sends a letter to the Interior Secretary urging her to refect Choctaw casino.”
“Taiwan should only agree to the torch route on the condition that Taiwan is seen as an international route and not a domestic route and leave it to China to accept or refect this offer...of course China will reject it but this will make China look uncompliant rather than Taiwan and also publicize Taiwan's quest for official independance.”
“So *average* temperatures changes over differing timescales refect different kinds of changes.”
“Many Japanese phones refect PC email for spam protection.”
“In addition, James Clad, a professor of Southeast Asian studies at Georgetown University, told me, Singapore, and Singapore's government, refect demographic dominance by the ethnic Chinese of the island's 4.0 million population.”
“He had the nickname of Dog-Smyth, because he kept no house, but dined at friends 'houses, and then desired a bit for his dog, which was to refect himself.”
Lists
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Thanks to everyone who added to this list. (I moved it to a new URL, so all the words added on the first day are credited to me—sorry about that.)
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Let's Eat!
Eating Verbs
boil, break bread, breakfast, chew, chomp, chow down, consume, cram, devour, diet, digest, dig in and 48 more...
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Archaic
Because they just don't make 'em like they used to.
comeling, circuition, assentment, advisement, accompts, apertness, larum, soothfastness, deperdition, marish, covin, tinct and 166 more...
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worddom
put words in their place
theca, wisdom, kingdom, freedom, boredom, seldom, martyrdom, abdomen, doom, samhita, duma, dumka and 151 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3251 more...
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