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start afresh

start afresh verb: to start or restart doing something from the beginning or with a clean slate.

Verb

start afresh (third-person singular simple present starts afresh, present participle starting afresh, simple past and past participle started afresh)

  1. To start or restart doing something from the beginning or with a clean slate.
    • That was a debacle. We'll start afresh.

Forms of start afresh

third-person singular presentstarts afresh
present participlestarting afresh
past participlestarted afresh
paststarted afresh

Questions about start afresh

What does start afresh mean?
Start afresh means to start or restart doing something from the beginning or with a clean slate.
What part of speech is start afresh?
Start afresh is a verb.
What is the past tense of start afresh?
The past tense of start afresh is started afresh.

Words near start afresh in the dictionary

  1. start
  2. start a family
  3. start a fresh hare
  4. start a hare
  5. start a hare running
  6. start afresh
  7. start and park
  8. start back
  9. start back in
  10. start back on
  11. Start button

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