recreate

See also: re-create

English

Etymology 1

From the participle stem of Latin recreare ‘restore’, from re- ‘re-’ + creare ‘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.

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:, 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

3. (intransitive) To take recreation.

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

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

From re- + create.

Alternate 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