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Language: Old English
Origin: of niwe 'of new'

anew

 adverb
     
a‧new written
1

start/begin anew

to begin a different job, start to live in a different place etc, especially after a difficult period in your life:
I was ready to leave everything behind and start anew in California.
2 if you do something anew, you start doing it again:
The committee is going to examine the whole situation anew.
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