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Refresh   /rɪfrˈɛʃ/   Listen
verb
Refresh  v. t.  (past & past part. refreshed; pres. part. refreshing)  
1.
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."
2.
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.)





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Refresh" Quotes from Famous Books



... some women cried the more others shouted; and when the meeting was over, everybody told everybody else what a refreshing time they had experienced under Brother Inskip's preaching, which was true as the Gospel, if tears refresh the soul as rain does ...
— Phemie Frost's Experiences • Ann S. Stephens
... resignedly we mourn A Park dismantled and forlorn, Long may it be ere you forsake Your quarters on the minished Lake; For there, with splendid plumes and hues And ways that startle and amuse, You constantly refresh the eye And cheer the heart of passers-by, Untouched by years of shock and strain, Undeviatingly urbane, And lending London's commonplace A touch ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, November 3, 1920 • Various
... through the whole day, indulging himself in easy and cheerful exertions, which were perhaps better calculated to refresh and invigorate the frame, than if he had sought repose in its direct form. Now and then he was visited with a sudden pang; but it was no sooner felt, than he seemed to rise above it, and smiled at the impotence of these attacks. They might destroy him, but they could not disturb. Three or four ...
— Caleb Williams - Things As They Are • William Godwin
... long quilted cap, which came an inch over his eyes, serving as an umbrella to defend them from too much light, and seldom eating any dinner. He would be every three hours munching a roll of bread, and now and then refresh his exhausted ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 13, No. 355., Saturday, February 7, 1829 • Various
... had said yes to Mr. Fyshe's invitation with alacrity, and had taken a look through the list of his more incompetent professors to refresh his memory. ...
— Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich • Stephen Leacock


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