recreate
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɹɛkɹɪeɪt/
recreate (recreates, present participle recreating; past and past participle recreated)
- (transitive) 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 fruits recreate the nostrils with their aromatic scent.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗, 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 {{...}
- (reflexive) To enjoy or entertain oneself.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], chapter II, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗, partition ii, section 3:
- 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.
- {w (Jeremy Taylor}) Holy Living and Dying Together with Prayers[https://books.google.com/books?id=q1QOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA20&dq=%22St.+John,+who+recreated+himself+with+sporting+with+a+tame+partridge%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiQo8a_6offAhVs4IMKHQFRBQcQ6AEINjAC#v=onepage&q=%22St.%20John%2C%20who%20recreated%20himself%20with%20sporting%20with%20a%20tame%20partridge%22&f=false], Longman, page 20
- St. John, who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge
- (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.
- 2004, Forbes (volume 173, issues 4-9, page 156)
- French: se réjouir
- Spanish: recrearse
- IPA: /ɹiːkɹɪˈeɪt/
recreate (recreates, present participle recreating; past and past participle recreated)
Translations- French: recréer
- Spanish: recrear
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