recreate

See also: re-create

English

Etymology 1

From the participle stem of Latin recreare (“to restore”), from re- (“re-”) + creare (“to create”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛkɹɪeɪt/

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.
   • Dryden

     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.

   • Dr H. More

     These ripe fruits recreate the nostrils with their aromatic scent.

   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, 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.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):

     , II.ii.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.

   • Jeremy Taylor (1839) Holy Living and Dying Together with Prayers: Containing the Whole Duty of a Christian...‎^[1], Longman, page 20

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

3. (intransitive) To take recreation.
   • 2004, Forbes (volume 173, issues 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 recreate — see reproduce

to give new energy

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 重製 (zh)

• Finnish: virkistää (fi)

to enjoy or entertain oneself

• Dutch: recreëren (nl)
• French: se réjouir (fr)

• Quechua: hawkay
• Spanish: recrearse (es)

to take recreation

• Finnish: huvitella (fi), rentoutua (fi)

• Romanian: recrea (ro)

Etymology 2

re- +‎ create

Alternative forms

• re-create

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹiːkɹɪˈeɪt/

Verb

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

1. To create anew.

Translations

create anew

• Finnish: luoda uudelleen, herättää henkiin
• French: recréer (fr)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: gjenskape

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Latin

Verb

recreāte

1. first-person plural present active imperative of recreō