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verb

Refresh v. t. (past & past part. refreshed; pres. part. refreshing)

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. "Foer they have refreshed my spirit and yours." "And labor shall refresh itself with hope."

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

To refresh the memory, to quicken or strengthen it, as by a reference, review, memorandum, or suggestion.

Synonyms: To cool; refrigerate; invigorate; revive; reanimate; renovate; renew; restore; recreate; enliven; cheer.

noun

Refresh n. The act of refreshing. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Refresh'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Refresh" Quotes from Famous Books

... my horses for the next stage. And by any other it appeared that I should have to wait. Accordingly I paid the money down—perhaps twenty pounds too much, though it was certainly a well-made and well-appointed vehicle—ordered it round in half an hour, and proceeded to refresh myself with breakfast. ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... replied. "But I seem to want something different from that stuff that the doctor has mixed for me. If I could only get a little fruit now—a bit of one of those pines you brought on board at Kingston, for instance—I believe it would refresh me ...

— Under the Meteor Flag - Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War • Harry Collingwood

... details from his own actual observation. Mr. Butt, Q.C., who was engaged in the case, has published a letter, stating that Mr. Trench was quite mistaken in his account. It seems strange that he did not refresh his memory by looking at a report of the ...

— The Land-War In Ireland (1870) - A History For The Times • James Godkin

... successively, but there is the physical reason that a dress, like a person, that has regular periods of rest, becomes restored in quality. Accordingly, all dresses should be laid very carefully away when not in use, and the proper means taken to refresh them. ...

— Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife • Marion Mills Miller

... honest gardener for his advice, and the safety he offered him in his house: he would have said more, but the good man interrupted him, saying, 'You are weary, and must want to refresh yourself. Come in and rest.' He conducted him into his little hut, and after the prince had eaten heartily of what he set before him, he requested him to ...

— Fairy Tales From The Arabian Nights • E. Dixon

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