AFRESH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does afresh mean? 

• AFRESH (adverb)
  The adverb AFRESH has 1 sense:

1. again but in a new or different way

  Familiarity information: AFRESH used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AFRESH (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Again but in a new or different way

Synonyms:

afresh; anew

Context example:

starting life anew in a fresh place

 Context examples 

She flies from him at last, returns to England, changes her name, and starts her life, as she thinks, afresh.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Finally, they got up the rapids all right, with local help, and are off on the chase afresh.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Martin paused from his rhapsody, only to break out afresh.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But would it break out afresh?

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Anew, afresh, or over again from the beginning.

(De novo, NCI Thesaurus)

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.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

“I am sorry,” said I, laughing afresh, “to have occasioned such a dispersion.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was Grey Beaver's will that he should go ashore, for ashore he was flung, striking heavily on his side and hurting his bruises afresh.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Now you had better go; for if you stay longer, you will perhaps irritate me afresh by some mistrustful scruple.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In order that we may start afresh and go to Meg's wedding with free minds, it will be well to begin with a little gossip about the Marches.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)