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# refocus

«refocus» in Mova's school dictionary: **To bring your attention or effort back to something, or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (refocus, refocuses or refocusses, refocused or refocussed, refocusing or refocussing); noun (a refocus)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To bring your attention or effort back to something, or onto something new. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refocus/#m1)

2) To adjust a camera, telescope or your eyes again so that the picture becomes sharp. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refocus/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday school life, a teacher may say "Let's refocus" when the class gets distracted. Sports coaches tell players to refocus after a mistake. In science, you refocus a microscope when you change the lens. Phrases: refocus on, refocus your attention, refocus the lens.

### examples

- After the fire drill, the class took a minute to refocus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refocus/#x1)
- Take a deep breath and refocus on your work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refocus/#x2)
- The coach told us to refocus after we lost the first goal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refocus/#x3)
- Turn the knob to refocus the microscope. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refocus/#x4)
- My eyes needed to refocus after staring at the screen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refocus/#x5)
- The company decided to refocus on making toys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refocus/#x6)

### note

Both "refocused" (common in the US and now in the UK) and "refocussed" are correct. Made of re- (again) + focus.

### In the corpora

- [Zoning out happens to everyone and is not laziness; you can refocus by asking yourself a question about the topic.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/50-listening-following-talk-asking-good-questions/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «refocus» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refocus/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.