The Collaborative International Dictionary
Re-create \Re`-cre*ate"\ (r?`kr?*?t"), v. t. [Pref. re- + create.] To create or form anew.
On opening the campaign of 1776, instead of
re["e]nforcing, it was necessary to re-create, the
army.
--Marshall.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To create again. 2 To create a likeness or copy of.
WordNet
v. create anew; "Re-create the boom of the West on a small scale"
make a replica of; "copy that drawing"; "re-create a picture by Rembrandt" [syn: copy]
form anew in the imagination; recollect and re-form in the mind; "His mind re-creates the entire world"
Usage examples of "re-create".
Not the Great Cycle, when the Universe is re-created, but the smallest of the great cycles, the Baktun, or 394 and a half English years.
A coiled heavy-ion accelerator boosted two baskets of uranium nuclei to fantastic levels of energy before smashing the countercyclical beams head-on, very briefly re-creating the ten-trillion-degree environment that had existed roughly one microsecond after the Big Bang.
The songs and love poems I composed, in which I declared my soul and transcribed its sentiments, depicted its burning desires, prolonged its memories, and re-created its yearnings!
The Emperor loved fishing to such a point that he had invested over 300 years of effort and a large fortune to re-create a fishing camp on the banks of the Umpqua River in the ancient region of Oregon on the planet Earth.
This idiot wants to re-create the old nondelegation doctrine the Supreme Court repudiated in the 1930s.
Even when they were in a snit, they built these things like actors re-creating psychodramas from a transcript.
There, in what is known as the live room, the electronic environment of target cities is re-created in order to test which antennas and receivers would be best for covert interception.
Under the Bahamas sun, Andrew closed his eyes, partly as relief against the brightness, but mostly to re-create that moment when Townsend brought Celia in .
The Axmen stand beneath it, no less bruised, worn or hungry than from any other day, blinking, turning away, then returning to this Radiance that flares from behind edges of Shapes uncertain, the Creation they believe they know, re-created.
The intention of the collider was to let scientists probe “the ultimate nature of matter,” as it is always put, by re-creating as nearly as possible the conditions in the universe during its first ten thousand billionths of a second.
They took him to a museum where animated, enlarged cells underwent mitosis with a plop like a cow lifting her foot from a bog, and a re-created Tyrannosaurus rex coughed and barked and thumped its feet clangorously, its orange eyes glaring straight at Forrester.
Re-create the scene perceived by Asx, staring up in awe, watching the great Jophur warship, Polkjhy, swoop from the sky, taking the pirates captive, then landing in this tortured valley.
All her piercings and tattoos and body modifications were gone, blasted away by the energy beam, and not re-created when she healed.
The one whose very history Cabell had been forced to reshape and re-create after the Masters had turned their giant miners to warriors.
It assimilates the data introduced, collates, interrelates, extrapolates and, on the basis of up to one hundred billion separate informational factors, re-creates the exocosmic matrix implied by the observed phenomena"