recreate
/ˈɹɛk.ɹi.eɪt/
recreate verb: to give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven. Also the alternative form of re-create.
Verb
recreate (third-person singular simple present recreates, present participle recreating, simple past and past participle recreated)
- 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.1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC
- These ripe fruit[…] recreate the nostrils with their aromatick scent.1688, Henry More, Divine Dialogues
- To enjoy or entertain oneself.
- 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.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], chapter II, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC...
- St. John, who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC
- To take recreation.
- 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, numbers 4-9, page 156
Also used as
recreate is also the alternative form of re-create.
recreate meaning in Kannada
recreate in Kannada
- ಮರುಸೃಷ್ಟಿಸಲು
Examples of recreate in a sentence
- Her rigging has been carefully recreated in figma form, featuring loads of articulation to create perfect poses!
- So now every mission have been recreated in case there is a doubt on their reality.
- The Wiyot say that Condor recreated mankind after Old Man wiped out humanity with a flood.
Synonyms of recreate
Forms of recreate
| third-person singular present | recreates |
|---|---|
| present participle | recreating |
| past participle | recreated |
| past | recreated |
| alternative form | re-create |
Origin of recreate
From Middle English recreate, from the participle stem of Latin recreāre (“to restore”), from re- (“re-”) + creāre (“to create”).
From re- + create.
Words formed from recreate
Questions about recreate
- What does recreate mean?
- Recreate means to give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven.
- What is recreate in Kannada?
- Recreate in Kannada is ಮರುಸೃಷ್ಟಿಸಲು. See Recreate meaning in Kannada.
- What part of speech is recreate?
- Recreate is a verb.
- How do you pronounce recreate?
- Recreate is pronounced /ˈɹɛk.ɹi.eɪt/.
- What is the past tense of recreate?
- The past tense of recreate is recreated.
Words near recreate in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: recreate (page history and authors); recreate (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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