Definitions for recreate
ˈrɛk riˌeɪtrecre·ate

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivifyverb

   give new life or energy to

   "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"

2. play, recreateverb

   engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion

   "On weekends I play"; "The students all recreate alike"

3. cheer, hearten, recreate, emboldenverb

   give encouragement to

4. recreateverb

   create anew

   "she recreated the feeling of the 1920's with her stage setting"

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To RECREATEverb

   Etymology: recreo, Lat recreer, Fr.

   1. To refresh after toil; to amuse or divert in weariness.

   He hath left you all his walks,
   And to your heirs for ever; common pleasures,
   To walk abroad and recreate yourselves. William Shakespeare.

   Necessity and the example of St. John, who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge, teach us, that it is lawful to relax our bow, but not suffer it to be unstrung. Tayl.

   Painters, when they work on white grounds, place before them colours mixt with blue and green, to recreate their eyes, white wearying and paining the sight more than any. Dryden.

   2. To delight; to gratify.

   These ripe fruits recreate the nostrils with their aromatick scent. Henry More, Divine Dialogues.

   3. To relieve; to revive.

   Take a walk to refresh yourself with the open air, which inspired fresh doth exceedingly recreate the lungs, heart and vital spirits. Gideon Harvey, on Consumptions.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. recreate

   To recreate is to create something again or to reproduce something accurately. It can also mean to construct or build an object, environment, or experience anew, often as closely as possible to its original form. Additionally, it can refer to engage in a recreational activity or leisure for enjoyment and relaxation.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Recreateverb

   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

2. Recreateverb

   to take recreation

3. Etymology: [L. recreatus, p. p. of recreate to create anew, to refresh; pref. re- re- + creare to create. See Create.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Recreate

   rek′rē-āt, 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.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of recreate in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of recreate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of recreate in a Sentence

1. Dennis Ross:

   The level of disbelief between the Israelis and Palestinians, not just the leadership, but also the public, has never been wider, you have to somehow recreate a sense of possibility which has been completely lost.

2. James Frey:

   In every case, I did the best I could to recreate my life according to my memory of it, when I had supporting documents, I used them.

3. Jacob Frey:

   The violence needs to stop, it's unacceptable, people deserve to feel safe in their neighborhood, they deserve to be able to send their kids out to the sidewalk to play and to recreate without bullets flying by. That's unacceptable. We should be holding those perpetrators accountable.

4. Joel Kim Booster:

   There's a universality to how Jane Austen depicts class struggles, especially in a place like Fire Island, where suddenly there are no straight people around to oppress us and we have to find ways to oppress one another, we recreate the artificial class systems and other hierarchies that exist in the rest of the world but are just magnified and felt so much more viscerally in a place where it's only gay people.

5. Adam Valdez:

   We do a lot of painstaking research into how real animals move, how their muscles and skin behave ... and then in the computer, we recreate all these things, an artist, like an animator, has to sit down and actually hand animate that eye, hand animate that face so that every little subtle nuance is represented.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=recreate
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=recreate
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/recreate
5. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=recreate