refresh

Other forms of refresh

past tense

refreshed·

present participle

refreshing·

third person

refreshes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about refresh

What does refresh mean?

refresh means "refresh one's memory". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in refresh?

refresh has 2 syllables: re-fresh. The stress falls on "fresh". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈfɹɛʃ/.

What is another word for refresh?

Close synonyms include review, brush up, freshen, freshen, refreshen. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of refresh?

The recorded antonyms are tire.

Is refresh a common word?

refresh is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with refresh?

2 words rhyme with refresh. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.