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REFRESHED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
With restored energy
Synonyms:
fresh; invigorated; refreshed; reinvigorated
Classified under:
Similar:
rested (not tired; refreshed as by sleeping or relaxing)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb refresh
Context examples:
“Your experience has been a most entertaining one,” remarked Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge pinch of snuff.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Lestrade took out his official notebook and refreshed his memory from its pages.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He read this passage as if it were from an Act of Parliament; and appeared majestically refreshed by the sound of the words.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
How can I ever pay you? she added, as the wine refreshed her body, as the kind words had done her troubled mind.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I was mightily refreshed by the beverage; as much so as a giant with wine: it gave new tone to my unstrung nerves, and enabled me to address this penetrating young judge steadily.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Mercury’s ice deposits appear to be much less patchy than those on the Moon, and relatively fresh, perhaps emplaced or refreshed within the last tens of millions of years.
(The Moon and Mercury May Have Thick Ice Deposits, NASA)
“I never needed it more,” said Holmes as he refreshed himself with a glass of claret and some biscuits in the intervals of his toilet.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Our little party of travelers awakened the next morning refreshed and full of hope, and Dorothy breakfasted like a princess off peaches and plums from the trees beside the river.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Like the cells elsewhere in your body, the neurons in your brain are being constantly refreshed by two different types of glial cell - support cells that are often called the glue of the nervous system.
(Lack of Sleep Makes Brain to Literally Eat Itself, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
She gave me a large bowlful, of which I drank very heartily, and found myself well refreshed.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
