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# refresh

«refresh» in Mova's school dictionary: **to make someone feel less tired or hot, and more lively…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (refresh, refreshes, refreshed, refreshing); noun (a refresh — reloading a page)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To refresh means to make someone feel less tired or hot, and more lively again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refresh/#m1)

2) To refresh a web page or screen means to load it again so it shows the newest version. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refresh/#m2)

3) To refresh your memory means to remind yourself of something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refresh/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Everyday life: a cold drink or a swim refreshes you on a hot day. Computing: press refresh to reload a page. Learning: revise to refresh your memory before a test. Phrases: refresh the page, refresh your memory, feel refreshed, a refreshing drink.

### examples

- A glass of cold water will refresh you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refresh/#x1)
- Refresh the page to see the new scores. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refresh/#x2)
- Let me refresh your memory: we read this chapter last week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refresh/#x3)
- I felt refreshed after a nap. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refresh/#x4)
- The cool breeze refreshed the hikers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refresh/#x5)
- The teacher refreshed the board with new questions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refresh/#x6)

### note

He refreshes (-es after sh). Adjective «refreshing» = pleasantly new or cooling; noun «refreshments» = snacks and drinks. re- means again: make fresh again.

### In the corpora

- [A short nap of about 20 minutes early in the afternoon can refresh you; a long late nap makes night sleep harder.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/56-sleep-for-growing-and-for-playing-well/13/)
- [And the king, and all the people that were with him, came weary; and he refreshed himself there.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.471/)
- ['Stay ye me with dainties, refresh me with apples; for I am love-sick.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/SNG.22/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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