recreate
See also: re-create
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From the participle stem of Latin recreare (“to restore”), from re- (“re-”) + creare (“to create”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
recreate (third-person singular simple present recreates, present participle recreating, simple past and past participle recreated)
- (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.
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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.5.1.v:
- Odoraments to smell to, of rose-water, violet flowers, balm, rose-cakes, vinegar, etc., do much recreate the brains and spirits […]
- Dryden
- (reflexive) To enjoy or entertain oneself.
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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
- St. John, who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge
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- (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.
- 2004, Forbes (volume 173, issues 4-9, page 156)
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Translations[edit]
to produce again, to recreate — see reproduce
to enjoy or entertain oneself
Etymology 2[edit]
Alternate forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
recreate (third-person singular simple present recreates, present participle recreating, simple past and past participle recreated)
Translations[edit]
create anew
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
recreāte