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Refed vs Refel - What's the difference?

refed | refel |

As verbs the difference between refed and refel

is that refed is (refeed) while refel is (obsolete) to refute, disprove (an argument); to confute (someone).

refed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (refeed)

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    refeed

    English

    Verb

  • To feed again, especially after a period of starvation or malnourishment.
  • * {{quote-book, 1997, David M. Garner, chapter=Psychoeducational principles in treatment, Handbook of Treatment for Eating Disorders, 2nd ed., editors=Garner & Garfinkel citation
    • , passage=The group of volunteers who received a relatively small increment in calories during refeeding (400 calories more than during semistarvation) had no rise in BMR for the first 3 weeks.}}

    Derived terms

    * refeeder * refeeding syndrome

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    refel

    English

    Alternative forms

    *refell

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To refute, disprove (an argument); to confute (someone).
  • *, I.iii.3:
  • *:Averroes scoffs at Galen for his reasons, and brings five arguments to refel them: so doth Hercules de Saxonia […].

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