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starts afresh

starts afresh is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 starts afresh

What is starts afresh the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Starts afresh is the third-person singular simple present indicative of start afresh.

Words near starts afresh in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: starts 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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