Recreate
[riːkrɪ'eɪt] or [,rikrɪ'et]
Definition
(verb.) create anew; 'she recreated the feeling of the 1920's with her stage setting'.
Checked by Enrique--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To give fresh life to; to reanimate; to revive; especially, to refresh after wearying toil or anxiety; to relieve; to cheer; to divert; to amuse; to gratify.
(v. i.) To take recreation.
Editor: Martin
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Refresh, reanimate, entertain, divert, amuse.
v. n. Unbend, take recreation, be diverted, be amused.
Inputed by Hubert
Definition
v.t. to revive: to reanimate: to cheer or amuse: to refresh: to delight.—v.i. to take recreation.—n. Recreā′tion the act of recreating or state of being recreated: refreshment after toil sorrow &c.: diversion: amusement: sport.—adjs. Recreā′tional Rec′reātive serving to recreate or refresh: giving relief in weariness &c.: amusing.—adv. Rec′reātively so as to afford recreation or diversion.—n. Rec′reātiveness the quality of being refreshing or amusing.
Inputed by Bartholomew
Examples
- All language can achieve is to act as a guidepost to the imagination enabling the reader to recreate the author's insight. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- As every day brought her stimulating emotion, so every night yielded her recreating rest. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Typist: Morton