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Recreate

//ˈɹɛk.ɹi.eɪt// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven. transitive

    "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."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of re-create. alt-of, alternative, proscribed, sometimes
  3. 3
    give new life or energy to wordnet
  4. 4
    To enjoy or entertain oneself. reflexive

    "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."

  5. 5
    form anew in the imagination; recollect and re-form in the mind wordnet
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  1. 6
    To take recreation. intransitive

    "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."

  2. 7
    produce or make another of wordnet
  3. 8
    make a replica of wordnet
  4. 9
    give encouragement to wordnet
  5. 10
    engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English recreate, from the participle stem of Latin recreāre (“to restore”), from re- (“re-”) + creāre (“to create”).

Etymology 2

From re- + create.

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