refresh
verb (used with object)
to provide new vigor and energy by rest, food, etc. (often used reflexively).
refreshful
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a word derived from
refresh.
Example Sentences
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You will find the broken rest and the troubled dreams which for years have made the midnight watches terrible, exchanged for the long refreshful sleep that makes one mouthful of the night.
From The Recreations of a Country Parson by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd
They may seem to be as much forgotten as the drops of rain which fall into the barren sea, but each rain-drop adds to the volume of refreshful and purifying waters.
From Making the Most of Life by J. R. (James Russell) Miller
Farewell to all my friends, whose company hath been refreshful to me in my pilgrimage.
From Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Lord's countenance, on face, is a refreshful sweet manifestation of himself to a soul, it is the Lord using familiarity with a spirit, and this made David more glad than corn and wine.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
He would not have bartered these great things, these seeming phantoms-- Eternal as the recurrent cloud, as air Imperative, refreshful as dawn-dew-- for any of the baser goods that we call real.
From A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2 by Mrs. Humphry Ward
