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1. afresh
adverb. ['əˈfrɛʃ'] again but in a new or different way.
Etymology
- a- (English)
- a- (Anglo-Norman)
- fresh (English)
- fresch (Middle English (1100-1500))
Rhymes with Afresh
- venkatesh
- mandresh
- vergresh
- refresh
- pradesh
- lafleche
- vergesh
- somesh
- ritesh
- mahesh
- koresh
- enmesh
- tresch
- thresh
- suresh
- klesch
- gresh
- flesh
- flesch
- dresch
- creche
- wesche
- wesch
- tesh
- tesch
- resch
- pesh
- pesch
- mesh
- mesch
Sentences with afresh
1. Noun, singular or mass
Even clubs may meet only monthly – long enough for fear to rise afresh.
2. Verb, base form
Your children will have to start afresh at new schools, leaving the friends they'd made behind.
Quotes about afresh
1. The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.
- G.K. Chesterton, A Chesterton calendar
2. …words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anew….
- A.S. Byatt, Possession
3. Certein bodies... become luminous when heated. Their luminosity disappears after some time, but the capacity of becoming luminous afresh through heat is restored to them by the action of a spark, and also by the action of radium.
- Marie Curie
