(a.) To make fresh again; to restore strength, spirit, animation, or the like, to; to relieve from fatigue or depression; to reinvigorate; to enliven anew; to reanimate; as, sleep refreshes the body and the mind.
(a.) To make as if new; to repair; to restore.
(n.) The act of refreshing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian Asked if Watson should seek to refresh his mandate after Corbyn’s overwhelming victory among members, McCluskey added: “Well, if Tom wants to try to refresh his mandate it would be interesting to see what happens.” Watson said it was time “to be proud of our party”, because the Conservatives were beatable and the prime minister, Theresa May, could call an election any time.
(2) You're more likely to awake refreshed, because inside your mattress there's a special sensor that monitors your sleeping rhythms, determining precisely when to wake you so as not to interrupt an REM cycle.
(3) The refreshing aspect of the success of this campaign was that a grassroots movement started in the community, rallied widespread support including academics, artists and politicians, and took control of deciding what constitutes racism and the bounds of acceptability.
(4) A look inside the building shows paintwork that could do with a refresh.
(5) There was a significant relationship between subjects' self-rating of knowledge and performance, suggesting that this method could be used to prioritize staff for basic or refresher training.
(6) While their defending still leaves much to be desired, particularly from set-pieces, their football under Rodgers has been refreshingly electric, with Luis Suarez, Coutinho, Jordan Henderson and Raheem Sterling in wonderful form.
(7) The resulting group OSCE (GOSCE) was used as an introductory session in two residential refresher courses for general practitioners.
(8) His best collaborators and students, such as Joyce Molyneux, late of the Carved Angel in Dartmouth, and Stephen Markwick, also late of Markwick's in Bristol, first reproduced his style, then refreshed it with their own imaginations, and the eclectic style of cooking associated with the 1980s.
(9) It was refreshing to see that the programme highlighted some of the frustrations in the decision making process.
(10) There has been the odd refreshing exception to this distressing trend – notably the anti-X Factor Killing In the Name by Rage Against The Machine in 2009 .
(11) • MPs and peers need to refresh their memories periodically about the Nolan Principles.
(12) Recommendations are made for expansion of ancillary services, for postgraduate and refresher training, and for modifications in the legal and police system.
(13) The problem of denying defendants their constitutional rights was the reason we have argued that defendants' hypnotically refreshed testimony should generally be permitted, whereas the unreliability of hypnotically elicited memories and the manner in which hypnosis diminishes the effectiveness of cross-examination make the general exclusion of testimony from hypnotized witnesses essential (M. T. Orne, 1982).
(14) Seventy-two percent were still confident in their ability to perform CPR, although no one had performed the technique on a real victim; 61.9% thought there should have been more manikin practice time; 92.2% still had their CPR refresher card.
(15) She also disarmingly reports: "He says I don't know a lot, which is beautiful and really refreshing."
(16) Finally, it is always refreshing to see an English coach succeed.
(17) Photograph: Popperfoto The director, Paul Andrew Williams, best known for the acclaimed L ondon to Brighton , is a refreshingly unpretentious and unflappable director, despite having had to conduct an orchestra of several languages and locations.
(18) The phrase "time to water the tree of liberty" - a reference to a famous quotation from Thomas Jefferson, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants" - is also frequently used by a right wing group called Stormfront , motto White Pride World Wide.
(19) Tony Abbott's handling of this issue is a refreshing change to way Labor engaged with the states.” Abbott denied the major states had forced him into a backflip, saying the government had been working calmly and methodically on the issue.
(20) The retention study also addressed itself to the question whether a 28-minute "refresher" film on CPR skills prior to the test would serve to improve performance of CPR skills.
Reinvigorate
Definition:
(v. t.) To invigorate anew.
Example Sentences:
(1) What the National Farmers' Union and Tories have achieved with this policy is to reinvigorate the animal rights movement and particularly hunt saboteurs, whose numbers have swelled massively since the culls began.
(2) Dan Jarvis, MP for Barnsley Central, said: “Given that the Conservatives are in disarray and Labour has a reinvigorated membership … these elections are an excellent opportunity to significantly increase our political representation right across the country.
(3) All inventive incision, the winger's arrival reinvigorated a suddenly possession-monopolising City.
(4) The new relationship, for the time being, is to be built around nuclear disarmament, which Obama said was a "good place to start" to reinvigorate a relationship he argued had been allowed to "drift" in recent years.
(5) I am confident Senator Hart will help the parties strengthen the institutions and economy of Northern Ireland, as well as reinvigorate efforts to promote a shared society.
(6) The steps to be taken include reinvigorating the ideological conviction for the unification process, not only among the political leadership of the continent but also within the wider public, through a rigorous articulation of African unity as a path for development and transformation.
(7) They more often want to create great educational opportunities for all students but the system fails them by not allowing them to refresh, reinvigorate, rejuvenate and revitalise themselves and their teaching materials in meaningful ways.
(8) To reinvigorate Channel 4's programming lineup and rediscover what the broadcaster is for.
(9) Then they could reflect on how to reinvigorate their party with a fresh sense of purpose more suited to the realities of the modern world.
(10) The Conservatives last week turned to M&C Saatchi to reinvigorate their election campaign after two much- lampooned and spoofed efforts, while the launch of a guerrilla ad campaign, positioning Labour and the Tories as failed political facsimiles, is thought to have helped the Lib Dems.
(11) Reinvigorating world trade and investment is essential for restoring global growth.
(12) I come out of the sea reinvigorated – and determined.
(13) Let’s get this one made and that will reinvigorate the franchise and then we’ll go on to maybe doing a more conventional third sequel as we were planning and another idea I have for it.” Aykroyd, who co-wrote the first two Ghostbusters movies and starred as eccentric parapsychologist Ray Stantz, spent several years trying to convince original co-star Bill Murray to reprise his role as Peter Venkman in a followup to 1984’s Ghostbusters and 1989 sequel Ghostbusters 2.
(14) The industry is waiting to see who Crozier will choose to reinvigorate demoralised producers.
(15) The Liberal Democrat Vince Cable made a stab at reinvigorating property as a revenue source two years ago, with his ham-fisted "mansion tax" of 1% on houses worth over £2m.
(16) He has promised a reinvigorated business with more new products and sharper communication with customers.
(17) His career only really began to flourish when, as an under-secretary (1972-76) in the DTI, he was responsible for Labour's attempt to reinvigorate the economy through reorganisation of the manufacturing base.
(18) The EU and a number of its member states are responding to this crisis by offering aid to Eritrea with the aim of reinvigorating its stagnant economy based on unofficial assurances that national service will be scaled back in the future.
(19) That technology exists.” Fiorina thought this would reinvigorate the political process and “people would be excited to be engaged in the critical questions of their time”.
(20) That means that tablet shipments are now 60% as large as PC shipments, in a category which had languished since Microsoft created it in 2000 until January 2010, when Apple reinvigorated it with the first iPad.