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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
relive
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
relive a memory (=talk about past events so you remember them again)
▪ Seeing her again was an excuse to relive old memories.
relive the moment (=experience something again by thinking about it, talking about it etc)
▪ In court she had to relive the moment her son was murdered.
relive/recapture your youth (=do things you did when young, to try and experience youth again)
▪ The band’s fans are clearly reliving their youth.
▪ The sports car is an attempt to recapture his youth.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
experience
▪ Altogether it was a great evening but reliving our holiday experiences did not come cheap.
▪ I relived the experience in my mind and grinned.
▪ It was like reliving the Dam Pool experience all over again, this time from above the water, rather than underneath it.
memory
▪ He sobbed as he relived the painful memory.
▪ In the long years since that glorious meal Jack had relived it in his memory a thousand times.
▪ If he liked the house so much he could go and live in it himself and relive his happy memories.
▪ Most of her free time was spent in Water Gypsy's main cabin, reliving the memories it held for her.
moment
▪ He was reliving the harrowing moment when he discovered her unconscious, her neck in a ligature.
▪ She flashed back to her discussion with Ted Wilkinson, reliving every moment in her mind.
▪ And motorway tragedy ... witness relives moments before crash that killed three people.
▪ But I believe that children need to be inducted into the tradition of reliving and rethinking moments of their lives.
▪ And her stomach twisted as she relived deliciously the moments of passion they had so recently shared.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I have relived that game many times and I still don't know how I missed the goal.
▪ In my dreams, I often relived my fears and thought I was being attacked.
▪ It's about a woman who is forced to relive her past when she discovers her long-lost brother.
▪ Over lunch, we relived our adventures in Tanzania.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But I believe that children need to be inducted into the tradition of reliving and rethinking moments of their lives.
▪ But old hands like Richard Thompson and Ashley Hutchins still get together to relive old songs.
▪ He often relived the war years and still remembered his many comrades, especially those who did not return.
▪ She flashed back to her discussion with Ted Wilkinson, reliving every moment in her mind.
▪ This includes an audio visual show which transports visitors on a 15 minute journey on the Trent to relive floods and battles.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Relive

Relive \Re*live"\ (r?-l?v"), v. i. To live again; to revive.

Relive

Relive \Re*live"\, v. t. To recall to life; to revive. [Obs.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
relive

1540s, "to come to life again" (also "to restore to life again"), from re- "back, again" + live (v.). Meaning "to experience over again" is attested from c.1711. Related: Relived; reliving.

Wiktionary
relive

vb. 1 (context obsolete transitive English) To bring back to life; to revive, resuscitate. (16th-17th c.) 2 (context intransitive English) To come back to life. 3 (context transitive English) To experience (something) again; to live over again. (from 18th c.)

WordNet
relive

v. experience again, often in the imagination; "He relived the horrors of war" [syn: live over]

Usage examples of "relive".

Radescu relived a dual memory, himself in a crib looking at his Uncle Grigor-and the infant Molt squirming against him for sustenance and affection.

But she endlessly reminisced, reliving her time with him, displaying a memory like a film library.

She relived the frantic shopping and packing, the last teary gatherings with friends, the fear of a faceless roommate, the terror of academic failure.

Identify the therapist with the father, relive the original experience as an adult, and Dingo.

A blood chill was blowing out from a corner of the darkness where the unspirited voor dead endlessly relived their lives as the brood soul.

What was most disturbing was how he felt when he awoke, it felt as if he had just relived those moments, but this time the emotions were not consistent with how he remembered them before the dream.

They had to shake me awake to tell me, for I had again been reliving my own onetime experience of such travail and, to ameliorate it, had drunk three or four bottles of Barolo and succumbed into blessed oblivion.

They still want to talk about the war, to relive the great fights, the grand memories.

In her delirium, she had relived her time with Andre and had run from him, trying to fnd a saviour--whom she now knew was Simon.

As he lay waiting for Jiggers to build a fire and start a pot of coffee to brewing, he relived the dream that had awakened him.

Similarly, the spheres, also emanations from the One, provide the Kabbalist with the opportunity to relive the Sinai mystery in his meditations.

As he relived the Letterman episode, he grew more and more angry, just flipping out.

I have heard it said that by devouring the flesh of the dead, together with a certain pharmacon, they are able to relive the lives of their victims.

Dance told the story of food, whether it be sweet summer nectar to be stored for the winter or the relived, pheromonally translated everlasting stories that fed a voracious India with the helpless lives of the people who lived and died, lived and died, in her service.

During a Timelessness swim, one could speak to all Pisces, living and dead, and relive the past.