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Refreshing vs Replenishing - What's the difference?

refreshing | replenishing |

As nouns the difference between refreshing and replenishing

is that refreshing is the action of refresh; refreshment given or received while replenishing is replenishment.

As verbs the difference between refreshing and replenishing

is that refreshing is while replenishing is .

As an adjective refreshing

is that refreshes someone; pleasantly fresh and different; granting vitality and energy.

refreshing

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • That refreshes someone; pleasantly fresh and different; granting vitality and energy.
  • Serving to refresh, particularly with respect to an electronic screen, or a browser window or similar computer application.
  • *2003 , John Wang, Data Mining: Opportunities and Challenges , page 74:
    • The polarization system has a refreshing' rate that is twice the ' refreshing rate of the corresponding shutter system.

    Derived terms

    * refreshingly * refreshingness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of refresh; refreshment given or received.
  • * 1821 , Frederick Butler, A Complete History of the United States of America
    • Notwithstanding these powerful refreshings of divine grace, the ways of Zion continued to mourn generally, throughout the New-England churches; iniquity abounded, and the hearts of many waxed cold
  • That which gives refreshment.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • replenishing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • replenishment
  • * 1986 , Constance Pierce, When Things Get Back to Normal and Other Stories (page 212)
    • Or viewed another way, one pair in health (the French wife, the German husband), attacking the fish with gusto, talking all the time, gesturing enthusiastically with a knife in the air and ordering frequent replenishings of the wine;