afresha‧fresh /əˈfreʃ/ adverb 
He moved to America to start afresh.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- Everything is progressing, yet everything has to be begun afresh.
- Only if the loudspeaker starts singing a new song will her soliciting start afresh.
- Our mountains and rivers begin life afresh.
- Seen in this light, and in the light of what he had now told me, I studied him afresh.
- She begged him to stay so that they could start life afresh as a family.
- They see the world afresh, not necessarily the way others believe it to be.
- We're going to start afresh.
Longman Language Activatorto start doing something again in a better way
to start doing something again from the beginning, because you want to do it better or differently from before: · I see the new job as a chance to start afresh.· The money we won made it possible for us to pay off all our debts and make a new start.· He's determined to make a fresh start when he gets out of prison.
American to go back to the beginning of something and start again: · If you make a keying error, just delete it and start over.· In 1960 the family fled the island of Cuba and, like many others, started over in Miami.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY He moved to America to start afresh.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB
He moved to America to start afresh.· He would return to such motifs again and again over the years, overworking an existing drawing or destroying and starting afresh.· We had not finished the war, but had to go back to Virginia and start afresh.· We're going to start afresh.· Only if the loudspeaker starts singing a new song will her soliciting start afresh.· I wanted everything to start afresh between you and me.· Analysts think Boeing will most likely start afresh and come up with a real rival early in 2002.· Once he was out of this mess, they could start afresh.· Let me therefore start afresh by looking at the common law.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
if you do something afresh, you do it again from the beginning SYN anew: - She moved to Texas to start anew after the divorce.
- Analysts think Boeing will most likely start afresh and come up with a real rival early in 2002.
- He would return to such motifs again and again over the years, overworking an existing drawing or destroying and starting afresh.
- I wanted everything to start afresh between you and me.
- If nothing else, the legal clock on the case will likely start anew when it returns to the trial court.
- Sometimes, staying put is a greater act of courage than pulling up stakes and starting anew.
- Stark had taken me to a place where I could shed my former selves and start anew.
- We're going to start afresh.
- We had not finished the war, but had to go back to Virginia and start afresh.
He moved to America to start afresh.