Word Meanings - REFRESH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

refreschir ; pref. re- re- 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. Chaucer.

Additional info about word: REFRESH

refreschir ; pref. re- re- 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. Chaucer. Foer they have refreshed my spirit and yours. 1 Cor. xvi. 18. And labor shall refresh itself with hope. Shak. 2. To make as if new; to repair; to restore. The rest refresh the scaly snakes that folDryden. To refresh the memory, to quicken or strengthen it, as by a reference, review, memorandum, or suggestion. Syn. -- To cool; refrigerate; invigorate; revive; reanimate; renovate; renew; restore; recreate; enliven; cheer.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REFRESH)

• Regale
• Feast
• entertain
• gratify
• delight
• refresh
• Renew
• Recreate
• restore
• renovate
• rejuvenate
• furbish
• recommence
• repeat
• reiterate
• reissue
• regenerate
• reform
• transform
• Restore
• Return
• replace
• refund
• repay
• reinstate
• re-establish
• renew
• repair
• recover
• heal
• cure
• Revive
• Reanimate
• revivify
• resucitate
• reassure
• awake
• live

Related words: (words related to REFRESH)

• REPAYMENT
  1. The act of repaying; reimbursement. Jer. Taylor. 2. The money or other thing repaid.
• REFORMALIZE
  To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• REFORMATIVE
  Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.
• REVIVEMENT
  Revival.
• REPEATEDLY
  More than once; again and again; indefinitely.
• RENOVATE
  To make over again; to restore to freshness or vigor; to renew. All nature feels the reniovating force Of winter. Thomson. (more info) renovare;pref. re- re- + novare to make new, fr. novus new. See New,
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• REVIVE
  To recover its natural or metallic state, as a metal. (more info) 1. To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. Shak. The Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into
• RETURNLESS
  Admitting no return. Chapman.
• REITERATE
  To repeat again and again; to say or do repeatedly; sometimes, to repeat. That with reiterated crimes he might Heap on himself damnation. Milton. You never spoke what did become you less Than this; which to reiterate were sin. Shak. Syn.
• ENTERTAINER
  One who entertains.
• REPEATER
  One who, or that which, repeats. Specifically: A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters. A repeating firearm. An instrument for resending a telegraphic message
• DELIGHTOUS
  Delightful. Rom. of R.
• AWAKENING
  Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting; as, the awakening city; an awakening discourse; the awakening dawn. -- A*wak"en*ing*ly, adv.
• REFRESHMENT
  1. The act of refreshing, or the state of being refreshed; restoration of strength, spirit, vigor, or liveliness; relief after suffering; new life or animation after depression. 2. That which refreshes; means of restoration or reanimation;
• TRANSFORMATION
  The act of transforming, or the state of being transformed; change of form or condition. Specifically: --
• RESTORE
  Restoration. Spenser.
• RECOVERANCE
  Recovery.
• REPEAT
  To repay or refund . To repeat one's self, to do or say what one has already done or said. -- To repeat signals, to make the same signals again; specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the signals shown at headquarters. Syn.
• PREFORM
  To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• REISSUE
  To issue a second time.
• PREFORMATIVE
  A formative letter at the beginning of a word. M. Stuart.
• FEAST
  festival, F. fête, fr. L. festum, pl. festa, fr. festus joyful, 1. A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. Ex. xiii. 6. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year
• WIDE-AWAKE
  Fully awake; not Dickens.