recreate

See also: re-create

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English recreate, from the participle stem of Latin recreāre (“to restore”), from re- (“re-”) + creāre (“to create”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛkɹɪeɪt/

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Verb

recreate (third-person singular simple present recreates, present participle recreating, simple past and past participle recreated)

1. (transitive) To give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven.
   • 1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC:

     Painters, when they work on white grounds, place before them colours mixed with blue and green, to recreate their eyes, white wearying […] the sight more than any.

   • 1688, Henry More, Divine Dialogues:

     These ripe fruit […] recreate the nostrils with their aromatick scent.

   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 5, member 1, subsection v:

     Odoraments to smell to, of rose-water, violet flowers, balm, rose-cakes, vinegar, etc., do much recreate the brains and spirits […]

2. (reflexive) To enjoy or entertain oneself.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], chapter II, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition ii, section 3:

     In Italy, though they bide in cities in winter, which is more gentlemanlike, all the summer they come abroad to their country-houses, to recreate themselves.

   • 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:

     St. John, who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge

3. (intransitive) To take recreation.
   • 2004, Forbes, volume 173, numbers 4-9, page 156:

     Phonecams are proliferating like mad, their tiny eyes fuzzily probing so many corners of public and private life that they have begun to alter how people communicate and recreate.

Synonyms

• (refresh): encourage, enliven, refresh
• (amuse): amuse, delight, enjoy

Related terms

• recreation

Translations

to produce again, to re-create — see reproduce,‎ recreate

to give new energy

• Bulgarian: освежавам (bg) (osvežavam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 重製／重制 (zh) (chóngzhì)

• Finnish: virkistää (fi)
• Hungarian: felüdít (hu), üdít (hu), felfrissít (hu), frissít (hu)

to enjoy or entertain oneself

• Bulgarian: развличам се (razvličam se), забавлявам се (zabavljavam se)
• Dutch: recreëren (nl)
• French: se réjouir (fr)
• Hungarian: szórakozik (hu)
• Quechua: hawkay
• Spanish: recrearse (es)
• Swedish: roa (sv)

to take recreation

• Finnish: huvitella (fi), rentoutua (fi)
• Hungarian: kikapcsolódik (hu)
• Romanian: recrea (ro)
• Swedish: återhämta (sv), rekreera (sv)

Etymology 2

re- +‎ create

Alternative forms

• re-create

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹiːkɹɪˈeɪt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

Verb

recreate (third-person singular simple present recreates, present participle recreating, simple past and past participle recreated)

1. To create anew.

Translations

create anew

• Bulgarian: пресъздавам (bg) (presǎzdavam)
• Catalan: recrear (ca)
• Finnish: luoda uudelleen, herättää henkiin
• French: recréer (fr)
• Hungarian: újra előállít, újjáalkot (hu), újjáteremt (hu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gjenskape

• Polish: odtwarzać (pl) impf, odtworzyć (pl) pf
• Russian: воссоздава́ть (ru) impf (vossozdavátʹ), воссозда́ть (ru) pf (vossozdátʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: рекреирати, rekreirati (sh)
• Spanish: recrear (es)
• Ukrainian: відтво́рювати impf (vidtvórjuvaty), відтвори́ти pf (vidtvorýty)

Latin

Verb

recreāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of recreō

Spanish

Verb

recreate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of recrear combined with te