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How to spell refresh

hear itre·fresh/rɪ'frɛʃ/verbPrefixes and work

What it means: To make something fresh again.

In a sentence: I like to refresh my face with cool water on a hot day.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as refesh or refrash.

Same family: refreshing, refreshed, refreshment, fresh, refreshes. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Refresh” comes from Old French *refreschir*, built from the prefix *re-* meaning “again” and *fraisch* meaning “fresh, cool.” The idea of “refreshing” a web page in modern computing keeps this old meaning of “making something new again.”

Patterns it uses: Prefixes keep every letter

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