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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
afresh
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
start
▪ He would return to such motifs again and again over the years, overworking an existing drawing or destroying and starting afresh.
▪ We had not finished the war, but had to go back to Virginia and start afresh.
▪ We're going to start afresh.
▪ Only if the loudspeaker starts singing a new song will her soliciting start afresh.
▪ I wanted everything to start afresh between you and me.
▪ Analysts think Boeing will most likely start afresh and come up with a real rival early in 2002.
▪ Once he was out of this mess, they could start afresh.
▪ Let me therefore start afresh by looking at the common law.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
start afresh/anew
▪ She moved to Texas to start anew after the divorce.
▪ Analysts think Boeing will most likely start afresh and come up with a real rival early in 2002.
▪ He would return to such motifs again and again over the years, overworking an existing drawing or destroying and starting afresh.
▪ I wanted everything to start afresh between you and me.
▪ If nothing else, the legal clock on the case will likely start anew when it returns to the trial court.
▪ Sometimes, staying put is a greater act of courage than pulling up stakes and starting anew.
▪ Stark had taken me to a place where I could shed my former selves and start anew.
▪ We're going to start afresh.
▪ We had not finished the war, but had to go back to Virginia and start afresh.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Everything is progressing, yet everything has to be begun afresh.
▪ Only if the loudspeaker starts singing a new song will her soliciting start afresh.
▪ Our mountains and rivers begin life afresh.
▪ Seen in this light, and in the light of what he had now told me, I studied him afresh.
▪ She begged him to stay so that they could start life afresh as a family.
▪ They see the world afresh, not necessarily the way others believe it to be.
▪ We're going to start afresh.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Afresh

Afresh \A*fresh"\, adv. [Pref. a- + fresh.] Anew; again; once more; newly.

They crucify . . . the Son of God afresh.
--Heb. vi. 6.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
afresh

c.1500, perhaps on analogy of anew [see note in OED], from a- (1) + fresh (adj.).

Wiktionary
afresh

adv. Anew; again; once more; newly.

WordNet
afresh

adv. again but in a new or different way; "start afresh"; "wanted to write the story anew"; "starting life anew in a fresh place" [syn: anew]

Usage examples of "afresh".

As if to demonstrate afresh how ridiculous Korea was, the aerologist appeared with the midnight weather reports from Siberia and China.

I consented, but when his mother heard what was the matter with him, she said it would be much better to leave him as he was, as this was the third time he had been in this condition, and that to have him cured was a waste of money, as no sooner was he well than he began his dissipated life afresh.

The attacking party looked rather taken aback for a moment as he followed her with his eyes, but sat down again and began to eat and laugh afresh, while everybody else kept a profound silence.

She had ceased sobbing, but her trembling would not be stilled, and she shuddered afresh when he came closer to her, beseeching his forgiveness with a pathetic smile, yet shrinking the more.

The graveyard has sprouted afresh with little white crosses carved with cuddlesome lambs.

At a table in the large, open space through which the staircase made its way, one level below the suite of Sir Bass Foster, Duke of Norfolk, his herald, Sir Ali, one of his noble bodyguards, Don Diego, and his friend and mentor, Baron Melchoro, sat, dicing desultorily, swapping yarnsfor all three had been free-swords and had soldiered in many corners of the known world as well as many pockets of it that were less well knownand sipping at tiny cuplets of a black, thick, bitter decoction that Sir Ali prepared afresh now and then in a long-handled brass pot over the glowing coals of a brazier.

It was iniquitous destiny beginning afresh: the most crushing toil falling upon a beast of burden, the son hebetated after the father, ground to death under the millstones of wretchedness and injustice.

All she really wanted to do was to get in her car and drive and keep on driving until she found somewhere no one knew her and where she knew no one, somewhere where she could start afresh, where she could be herself.

Now began I afresh to give myself up to a serious examination after my state and condition for the future, and of my evidences for that blessed world to come: for it hath, I bless the name of God, been my usual course, as always, so especially in the day of affliction, to endeavour to keep my interest in the life to come, clear before mine eyes.

Colney had to be overcome afresh, and he fled, but managed, with two or three of his bitter phrases, to make a cuttle-fish fight of it, that oppressively shadowed his vanquisher: The Daniel Lambert of Cities: the Female Annuitant of Nations:--and such like, wretched stuff, proper to Colney Durance, easily dispersed and outlaughed when we have our vigour.

Although, as a general case, a ship unlucky in falling in with whales continues to cruise after them until she has barely sufficient provisions remaining to take her home, turning round then quietly and making the best of her way to her friends, yet there are instances when even this natural obstacle to the further prosecution of the voyage is overcome by headstrong captains, who, bartering the fruits of their hard-earned toils for a new supply of provisions in some of the ports of Chili or Peru, begin the voyage afresh with unabated zeal and perseverance.

And the mellay that was stayed while those lords dealt together in single combat brake forth afresh in that place.

This contradiction indeed peeped out only to vanish, for at the very moment that, in the spirit of it, she threw herself afresh upon her young friend a hansom crested with neat luggage rattled up to the door and Miss Overmore bounded out.

People who had brought their handbaggage with them from their rooms looked so much safer with it that people who had left theirs to their stewards had to go back and pledge them afresh not to forget it.

And he hastened on, Theos treading close in his footsteps and thinking as he went of the new enigma thus proposed to puzzle afresh the weary workings of his mind.