refresh

Meaning

Verb

1. (transitive) To renew or revitalize.
2. (intransitive) To become fresh again; to be revitalized.
3. (ambitransitive) To reload (a document, especially a webpage) and show any new changes.
4. (ambitransitive) To cause (a web browser or similar software) to refresh its display.
5. To perform the periodic energizing required to maintain the contents of computer memory, the display luminance of a computer screen, etc.
6. (colloquial, dated, intransitive) To take refreshment; to eat or drink.

Noun

1. The periodic energizing required to maintain the contents of computer memory, the display luminance of a computer screen, etc.
2. The update of a display (in a web browser or similar software) to show the latest version of the data.
3. The process of modernizing something.

Synonyms

renew

freshen

invigorate

revive

freshen up

renovate

refreshen

strengthen

recreate

update

restore

revitalize

cool

🆒

encourage

purify

stimulate

brush up

animate

replenish

rest

refresher

review

enliven

vitalize

clear away

give encouragement

recover

recruit

clean

recreant

recuperate

refine

refreshment

refurbish

regeneration

regrowth

reincarnation

reinvigorate

rejuvenate

rejuvenated

remind

renewal

renovation

repair

replacement

resuscitate

retouch

retrofit

revivify

satisfy

Translations

rinfrescare

rafraîchir

refrescar

refrescar

erfrischen

opfrissen

verfrissen

laven

opknappen

ανανεώνω

verversen

auffrischen

erquicken

rinfrescarsi

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹiˈfɹɛʃ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: refreshen

Cognate with French: rafraîchir

In summary

From Middle English refreshen, refreschen, refrisschen, from Old French refrescher (“to refresh”) (modern French rafraîchir), equivalent to re- + fresh.