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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
recreate
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
try
▪ Again and again he tried to recreate that moment.
▪ They just clean up and try to recreate the buzz rush of drugs through art.
▪ That chance has faded, but we must try to recreate it.
▪ In them he tried to recreate the characters of people who had meant much to him.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Arjelo's novel vividly recreates 15th-century Spain.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And we can share best practices so that every educator and employer does not have to recreate effective strategies from scratch.
▪ As I do this, Miles and Evan often chime in, so we work together to recreate the story.
▪ Fidelity is a dynamic, positive posture that needs renewing and recreating constantly.
▪ He has told friends that he intends to recreate the best bits of Neddy.
▪ The second step in recreating a market economy is to restore private ownership of capital.
▪ The talks I had with members of the group I recreated in my Conversations in Bloomsbury.
▪ The trauma is still exerting an influence, but in the negative reactions it pushes against the trauma being recreated.
▪ With those who reached him emotionally he recreated the rejections he had experienced as a young child.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recreate

Recreate \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.

Recreate

Recreate \Rec"re*ate\, v. i. To take recreation.
--L. Addison.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
recreate

also re-create, "to create anew," 1580s, from re- "back, again" + create. Related: Recreated; recreating; recreation.

Wiktionary
recreate

Etymology 1 vb. 1 (context transitive English) To give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven. 2 (context reflexive English) To enjoy or entertain oneself. 3 (context intransitive English) To take recreation. Etymology 2

vb. To create anew.

WordNet
recreate
  1. v. give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health" [syn: animate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify]

  2. engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion; "On weekends I play"; "The students all recreate alike" [syn: play]

  3. give encouragement to [syn: cheer, hearten, embolden] [ant: dishearten]

  4. create anew; "she recreated the feeling of the 1920's with her stage setting"

Usage examples of "recreate".

Universal military education for me and mine and all other Americans is his slogan, and his aim is to recreate the America of the early Seventies, which became hardened and callous through the years by reason of resistance to the German menace of autocracy, but now removed.

And as Routh recreated in himself the sense of a whole society with cruel hand outstretched and eager to pull the plug, terrifying hints of hidden and dangerous volitions rose up through his weak anger.

The tartrates and citrates had been released in gas when the water was mixed with the powdery remnant, but by adding those chemicals he had selected to the few clinging particles Van had recreated the crystals in their original form.

In now recalling that drive down the white-ribboned road between Vinton and Waterloo I can recreate the scenes with quite extraordinary vividness.

Rodney Potts, recreated and natty in a new summer suit of alpaca, his hat freshly ironed, sued the town of Little Arcady for ten thousand dollar damages to his person and announced his candidacy at the ensuing election for the honorable office of Judge of Slocum County.

Syd received support for his view from those who revived bands of the past with just one member of the original line-up, insisting that they could recreate the original sound if they used the original vocalist.

That, recoiling from oblivion, we can recreate in a fractional moment whole years gone past, years yet to come -- striving to lengthen our existence, stretching out our apperception beyond the phantom boundaries, overdrawing upon a Barmecide deposit of minutes, staking fresh claims upon a mirage?

Looking at her from the bed, he recreated these situations, conceptualizations of exquisite games.

Chapter 1, ancient stone tools have been found all over the world, and their distribution and variation enable us to recreate a great deal about our distant past and the first ideas and thoughts of ancient humankind.

Like a familiar painting, inexpertly recreated from a new and confusing angle.

When I saw this dreadfull sight, I began to feare, least I should come to the like state : and considering with my selfe the good fortune which I was sometime in when I was a man, I greatly lamented, holding downe my head, and would eate no meate, but I saw no comfort or consolation of my evill fortune, saving that my mind was somewhat recreated to heare and understand what every man said, for they neither feared nor doubted my presence.

He always had an adventure up his sleeve--something their imaginations could accept and recreate.

The patterns are somewhat different this night, as every night, different in the details, the intersections and nodes where the information is traded, created, recreated, but the greater shape remains much the same.

Socialism has struggled to recreate the submerged memories of working-class people, black movements have rediscovered their roots, feminists the suppressed history of women.

I have been unable to contact or detect them in any way, either by recreating the old Chumash rituals or through modem scientific sorcery.