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

1. (transitive) To give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven.
   • (Can we date this quote by Dryden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     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.

   • (Can we date this quote by Dr H. More and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     These ripe fruits recreate the nostrils with their aromatic scent.

   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames 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.
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     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 ((Can we date this quote?)) Holy Living and Dying Together with Prayers‎^[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／重制 (zh) (chóngzhì)

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• Finnish: virkistää (fi)

to enjoy or entertain oneself

• Dutch: recreëren (nl)
• French: se réjouir (fr)
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• Quechua: hawkay
• Spanish: recrearse (es)

to take recreation

• Finnish: huvitella (fi), rentoutua (fi)
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• Romanian: recrea (ro)

Etymology 2

re- +‎ create

Alternative forms

• re-create

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹiːkɹɪˈeɪt/

Verb

1. To create anew.

Translations

create anew

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

  Bokmål: gjenskape

• Spanish: recrear (es)

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) recreāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of recreō