recreate
verbverbattested in dialogue
- //ˈɹɛk.ɹi.eɪt//
- //ɹiː.kɹiˈeɪt//
To give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven.
verb
- 1
To give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven.
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 […]
- 2
To enjoy or entertain oneself.
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
- 3
To take recreation.
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.
Etymology
From Middle English recreate, from the participle stem of Latin recreāre (“to restore”), from re- (“re-”) + creāre (“to create”).
verb
- 1
Variant of re-createAlternative form of re-create.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English create English recreate From re- + create.
Forms
- past tense
- recreated
- past participle
- recreated
- present participle
- recreating
- third person singular
- recreates
recreate · To give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven.
recreation · Any activity, such as play, that amuses, diverts or…recruit · A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reinforcement.recruiting · The process by which a person is recruited; recruitment.