Afresh
[ə'freʃ] or [ə'frɛʃ]
Definition
(adv.) again but in a new or different way; 'start afresh'; 'wanted to write the story anew'; 'starting life anew in a fresh place'.
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Definition
(adv.) Anew; again; once more; newly.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
ad. Anew, newly, again, over again, DE NOVO.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Anew, again, frequently, repeatedly, intermittently
ANT:Continuously, uniformly, uninterruptedly, unintermittently, connectedly
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Definition
adv. anew.
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Examples
- Perhaps we shall say with Nietzsche: Let the value of everything be determined afresh by you. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- With a plunge of enjoyment, Fledgeby settled himself afresh. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The wound which years had scarcely cicatrized bled afresh, and oh, how bitterly! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I lament afresh the cruel necessity which sets our interests at variance, and opposes us to each other. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- LITTLE WOMEN PART 2 In order that we may start afresh and go to Meg's wedding. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- When he cast off the Patriarch at night, it was only to take an anonymous craft in tow, and labour away afresh in other waters. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- My stripes were sore and stiff, and made me cry afresh, when I moved; but they were nothing to the guilt I felt. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- My love is like the rose-plant itself, which renews itself afresh with every coming of summer. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Presently in the fourth and fifth centuries the weather grew drier and the grass became scanty, and the nomads stirred afresh. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In the waters of a new life I had tempered my nature afresh. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The suspense seemed to have taken a new lease, and to have begun afresh from a recent date. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Mary's face was all swollen with crying, and she burst out afresh when she saw Margaret. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- She flies from him at last, returns to England, changes her name, and starts her life, as she thinks, afresh. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- And then we contemplated one another afresh, and laughed again. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- In the second return stroke the burnt gases are expelled from the cylinder and the whole made ready to start afresh. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- They were overpowered afresh by his uncommon generosity. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- They looked at one another, as he used his blue cap to wipe his face, on which the perspiration had started afresh while he recalled the spectacle. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I knew this to be a weakness which must be overcome, but I had always said to myself that I would begin afresh when I got to where I now was. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But, when Louisa opened her arms, he repulsed her afresh. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Let him make a tool of me afresh and again? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Come, come, my young cousins, begin afresh! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I say, sweep it off the face of the earth and begin afresh. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- And here, losing patience, I broke out afresh with a cry that I wanted to be liberated--to get out into the air--I was almost in a fever. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I might have known that he would never help me out; but it took me aback to have to shape the question afresh, as if it were quite new. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I fell asleep worn out, and when I awoke I cried afresh to think that I was back in the world with my load of trouble for others. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Margaret smiled a little, and then sighed as she remembered afresh her old tirades against trade. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I am sorry it is loSt. And I could not help weeping afresh. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Now you had better go; for if you stay longer, you will perhaps irritate me afresh by some mistrustful scruple. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- For conscious life is a continual beginning afresh. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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