recreate

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Etymology 1

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

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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: [] 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: [] 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.
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Etymology 2

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From re- +‎ create.

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

  1. Alternative form of re-create.
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recreāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of recreō

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recreate

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