recreated
recreated is the simple past and past participle of recreate.
Meaning of recreate
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
- 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...
- 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
Questions about recreated
- What is recreated the simple past and past participle of?
- Recreated is the simple past and past participle of recreate.
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