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started afresh

started afresh is the simple past and past participle of start afresh.

Meaning of start afresh

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.

Questions about started afresh

What is started afresh the simple past and past participle of?
Started afresh is the simple past and past participle of start afresh.

Words near started afresh in the dictionary

  1. started
  2. started a family
  3. started a fresh hare
  4. started a hare
  5. started a hare running
  6. started afresh
  7. started back
  8. started back in
  9. started back on
  10. started in
  11. started in on

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Adapted from Wiktionary: started afresh (page history and authors); start afresh (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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