Recreate

/ˈɹɛk.ɹi.eɪt/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven.
2. (reflexive) To enjoy or entertain oneself.
3. (intransitive) To take recreation.
4. (sometimes proscribed) Alternative form of re-create.

Example Sentences

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.

These ripe fruit[…] recreate the nostrils with their aromatick scent.

Odoraments to smell to, of rose-water, violet flowers, balm, rose-cakes, vinegar, etc., do much recreate the brains and spirits […]

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.

St. John, who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge

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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Antonyms for recreate

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Word Forms

• recreates
• recreating
• recreated
• re-create

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