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/ɹəˈfɹɛʃɪŋ/
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ɹəˈfɹɛʃɪŋ
Adjective
That refreshes someone; pleasantly fresh and different; granting vitality and energy.
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The pond was another favourite place to visit. Moorhens strutted from the neighbouring bushes, and a bevy of Muscovy ducks, a study in black, white and red, waddled from the farmyard hard by to enjoy a refreshing splash.
Every forecast or guess has one refreshing quality: one will be right and the rest will be wrong.
Serving to refresh, particularly with respect to an electronic screen, or a browser window or similar computer application.
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The polarization system has a refreshing rate that is twice the refreshing rate of the corresponding shutter system.
Noun
The action of refresh; refreshment given or received.
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Notwithstanding these powerful refreshings of divine grace, the ways of Zion continued to mourn generally, throughout the New-England churches; iniquity abounded, and the hearts of many waxed cold […]
That which gives refreshment.
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imparting vitality and energy
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the bracing mountain air
pleasantly new or different
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common sense of a most refreshing sort