recreate
See also: re-create
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English recreate, from the participle stem of Latin recreāre (“to restore”), from re- (“re-”) + creāre (“to create”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈɹɛkɹɪeɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
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.
- 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 […]
- (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
- (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
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to give new energy
to enjoy or entertain oneself
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to take recreation
Etymology 2
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɹiːkɹɪˈeɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
[edit]recreate (third-person singular simple present recreates, present participle recreating, simple past and past participle recreated)
- (sometimes proscribed) Alternative form of re-create.
Translations
[edit]create anew
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Usage notes
[edit]Sometimes proscribed by usage guides to prevent confusion with "recreate" (to enjoy oneself).
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]recreāte
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]recreate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of recrear combined with te
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