become or make oneself fresh again, To renew or revitalize, make (to feel) fresh, transitive To make fresh again; to restore strength, spirit, animation, or the like, to; to relieve from fatigue or depression; to reinvigorate; to enliven anew; to reanimate, to quicken or strengthen it, as by a reference, review, memorandum, or suggestion, To make as if new; to repair; to restore, intransitive To update (the information displayed on a screen), as to reflect the most recent changes to a webpage being viewed, To renew by stimulation, To revive or reinvigorate, as with rest, food, or drink, noun_ The periodic energizing required to maintain the contents of computer memory, the display luminance of a computer screen, etc, obsolete The act of refreshing, computing The update of a display (in a web browser or similar software) to show the latest version of the data