afresh


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a·fresh

 (ə-frĕsh′)
adv.
Once more; anew; again: start afresh.
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afresh

(əˈfrɛʃ)
adv
once more; once again; anew
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a•fresh

(əˈfrɛʃ)

adv.
anew; once more: to start afresh.
[1500–10]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adv.1.afresh - 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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afresh

adverb again, newly, once again, once more, over again, anew The only hope for the party is to start afresh.
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afresh

adverb
Once more:
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Translations

afresh

[əˈfreʃ] ADVde nuevo, otra vez
to do sth afreshvolver a hacer algo
to start afreshvolver a empezar
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

afresh

[əˈfrɛʃ] advde nouveau
to start afresh → recommencer à zéro
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

afresh

advnoch einmal von vorn or Neuem
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

afresh

[əˈfrɛʃ] advda capo, di nuovo
to start afresh → ricominciare (tutto) da capo
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
References in classic literature ?
"Let others- the young- yield afresh to that fraud, but we know life, our life is finished!"
When the young Prince saw this, his grief at being thus confined burst out afresh, and, standing near the lion, he said: "O you most detestable of animals!
Just at this moment a circumstance, the most unexpected, the most extraordinary and incredible, occurred to rouse afresh their panting spirits, and to throw every mind into a state of the most violent excitement.
[1289a] rather to treat of what is common, censure those under which they live, and extol the excellence of a particular state, as the Lacedaemonian, or some other: but every legislator ought to establish such a form of government as from the present state and disposition of the people who are to receive it they will most readily submit to and persuade the community to partake of: for it is not a business of less trouble to correct the mistakes of an established government than to form a new one; as it is as difficult to recover what we have forgot as to learn anything afresh. He, therefore, who aspires to the character of a legislator, ought, besides all we have already said, to be able to correct the mistakes of a government already established, as we have before mentioned.
I gave up my small apartment, sold my few belongings, and resolved to start afresh.
I wish them neither to learn afresh, nor teach anew, but only to bid farewell to their own bodies,--and thus be dumb.
I lament afresh the cruel necessity which sets our interests at variance, and opposes us to each other.
What I entreat of thee, O thou fatal star to me, is that the hand thou demandest of me and wouldst give me, be not given out of complaisance or to deceive me afresh, but that thou confess and declare that without any constraint upon thy will thou givest it to me as to thy lawful husband; for it is not meet that thou shouldst trifle with me at such a moment as this, or have recourse to falsehoods with one who has dealt so truly by thee."
But when little Jacob saw his brother, and, thrusting his arms between the rails to hug him, found that he came no nearer, but still stood afar off with his head resting on the arm by which he held to one of the bars, he began to cry most piteously; whereupon, Kit's mother and Barbara's mother, who had restrained themselves as much as possible, burst out sobbing and weeping afresh. Poor Kit could not help joining them, and not one of them could speak a word.
Whether any of the relatives of the seamen whose names appeared there were now among the congregation, I knew not; but so many are the unrecorded accidents in the fishery, and so plainly did several women present wear the countenance if not the trappings of some unceasing grief, that I feel sure that here before me were assembled those, in whose unhealing hearts the sight of those bleak tablets sympathetically caused the old wounds to bleed afresh. Oh!
Thanking the good woman, they started afresh and walked by the fields and across the pretty bridges until they saw before them a very beautiful Castle.
Then, astounded by the quantity of beer that was lacking, and remembering having seen stale beer made to foam afresh, I took a stick and stirred what was left till it foamed to the brim.