reliving
reliving is the present participle and gerund of relive.
Meaning of relive
Verb
relive (third-person singular simple present relives, present participle reliving, simple past and past participle relived)
- To experience (something) again; to live over again.
- I relive that horrible accident every night and wake screaming.
- 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
- To come back to life.
Noun
reliving (countable and uncountable, plural relivings)
- The process by which something is relived.
- In effect, the recovery of traumatic memories involves the conscious awareness and explicit processing of relivings of the somatosensory and affective experiences during the trauma, relivings that are largely context-free and meaningless.1996, Susan Contratto, M. Janice Gutfreund, A Feminist Clinician's Guide to the Memory Debate, page 38
Forms of reliving
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Questions about reliving
- What does reliving mean?
- Reliving means the process by which something is relived.
- What is reliving the present participle and gerund of?
- Reliving is the present participle and gerund of relive.
- What part of speech is reliving?
- Reliving is a noun.
- What is the plural of reliving?
- The plural of reliving is relivings.
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