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Recreate

Recreate Meaning & Definition
Recreate Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Recreate?

[v] give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"
[v] create anew; "she recreated the feeling of the 1920's with her stage setting"
[v] give encouragement to
[v] engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion; "On weekends I play"; "The students all recreate alike"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Recreate: animate | cheer | embolden | hearten | play | quicken | reanimate | renovate | repair | revive | revivify | vivify

Related Terms | Find terms related to Recreate:

See Also | arouse | brace | buck up | create | encourage | energise | energize | make | perk up | reinvent | stimulate | take heart

Recreate In Webster's Dictionary

\Rec"re*ate\ (rk"r*t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Recreated} (-`td); p. pr. & vb. n. {Recreating}.] [L. recreatus, p. p. of recreate to create anew, to refresh; pref. re- re- + creare to create. See {Create}.] To give fresh life to; to reanimate; to revive; especially, to refresh after wearying toil or anxiety; to relieve; to cheer; to divert; to amuse; to gratify. Painters, when they work on white grounds, place before them colors mixed with blue and green, to recreate their eyes, white wearying . . . the sight more than any. --Dryden. St. John, who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge. --Jer. Taylor. These ripe fruits recreate the nostrils with their aromatic scent. --Dr. H. More.
\Rec"re*ate\, v. i. To take recreation. --L. Addison.

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