afresh
part of speech
adverb
meaning for a pupil
1) Again from the beginning, in a new way. tree →
2) Once more, newly. tree →
sense in the lessons
Used in stories and instructions when someone starts something over: start afresh, look at it afresh. It tells the reader there is a new start or a fresh view. Common in school when work goes wrong and you begin again. Phrases: start afresh, begin afresh, look at something afresh.
examples
- My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin closeth up and breaketh out afresh. (Writings JOB.7.5, JPS 1917) tree →
- I made a mess of my drawing, so I started afresh. tree →
- After the argument, the friends decided to begin afresh. tree →
- The family moved to Australia to start life afresh. tree →
- Look at the problem afresh tomorrow and you might see the answer. tree →
- The snow had fallen afresh in the night. tree →
- Let's read the question afresh and check each step. tree →
- The new term is a chance to start afresh. tree →
- And the woman began to weep afresh. tree →
note
Adverb, so it describes the verb (start afresh). Similar: anew, again, from scratch. A little formal or bookish; in speech people say "start again" or "start over" (US).
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «afresh» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.