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relive

/ɹiːˈlɪv/

relive verb: to experience (something) again; to live over again.

Verb

relive (third-person singular simple present relives, present participle reliving, simple past and past participle relived)

  1. (transitive) To experience (something) again; to live over again.
    • I relive that horrible accident every night and wake screaming.
    • Replays in video games allow you to relive your greatest moments.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To bring back to life; to revive, resuscitate.
    • Had she not beene devoide of mortall slime, / Shee should not then have bene relyv'd againe [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  3. (intransitive) To come back to life.

relive meaning in Arabic

relive in Arabic

to experience again
أَحْيَا ʔaḥyā

Examples of relive in a sentence

  • Last night, as they rested in Penang, Malaysia, the rescued passengers relived their ordeal.
  • Grab your friends and relive the fun (and cringe-y) moments.
  • What we might get instead could be just a one-way ticket to Palookaville instead of getting to relive the sixteenth century.

All 19 example sentences with relive

Forms of relive

third-person singular presentrelives
present participlereliving
past participlerelived
pastrelived

Past tense of relive: relived

Origin of relive

From re- + live.

Words formed from relive

Words that rhyme with relive

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Questions about relive

What does relive mean?
Relive means to experience (something) again; to live over again.
What is relive in Arabic?
Relive in Arabic is أَحْيَا (ʔaḥyā). See Relive meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is relive?
Relive is a verb.
How do you pronounce relive?
Relive is pronounced /ɹiːˈlɪv/.
What is the past tense of relive?
The past tense of relive is relived.

Words near relive in the dictionary

  1. relitigating
  2. relitigation
  3. relitigations
  4. Relitz
  5. relivable
  6. relive
  7. reliveable
  8. relived
  9. reliver
  10. reliveried
  11. reliveries

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