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Definition of "afresh" []

  • Once more; anew; again: start afresh. (adverb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "afresh" in a sentence
  • "I want to bring young people in afresh so they can experience the beautiful work of Beuys and Acconci."
  • "He vowed to begin afresh with a new wife, abandoning his daughter in search of elusive contentment."
  • "We can begin afresh by asking our students to contemplate the range and extent of writing Shelley produced and got printed between the spring of 1810 (Zastrozzi), when he was seventeen, and May of 1813 (Queen Mab), when he was still twenty: two gothic novels, two volumes of verse, five political tracts/pamphlets, one satirical ballad, one 2800-line political-philosophical vision."