start afresh in English

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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "starts afresh",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "starting afresh",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "started afresh",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "started afresh",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "start afresh (third-person singular simple present starts afresh, present participle starting afresh, simple past and past participle started afresh)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "That was a debacle. We'll start afresh."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To start or restart doing something from the beginning or with a clean sheet."
      ],
      "id": "en-start_afresh-en-verb-f1fWdigi",
      "links": [
        [
          "start",
          "start"
        ],
        [
          "restart",
          "restart"
        ],
        [
          "beginning",
          "beginning"
        ],
        [
          "clean sheet",
          "clean sheet"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "restart from the beginning",
          "word": "重新開始"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "chóngxīn kāishǐ",
          "sense": "restart from the beginning",
          "word": "重新开始"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "restart from the beginning",
          "word": "aloittaa alusta"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "restart from the beginning",
          "word": "reprendre à zéro"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "start afresh"
}

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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "starts afresh",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "starting afresh",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "started afresh",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "started afresh",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "start afresh (third-person singular simple present starts afresh, present participle starting afresh, simple past and past participle started afresh)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English verbs",
        "Mandarin terms with non-redundant manual transliterations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "That was a debacle. We'll start afresh."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To start or restart doing something from the beginning or with a clean sheet."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "start",
          "start"
        ],
        [
          "restart",
          "restart"
        ],
        [
          "beginning",
          "beginning"
        ],
        [
          "clean sheet",
          "clean sheet"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "restart from the beginning",
      "word": "重新開始"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "chóngxīn kāishǐ",
      "sense": "restart from the beginning",
      "word": "重新开始"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "restart from the beginning",
      "word": "aloittaa alusta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "restart from the beginning",
      "word": "reprendre à zéro"
    }
  ],
  "word": "start afresh"
}

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"start afresh" meaning in English

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