recreate

From Middle English recreate, from the participle stem of Latin recreāre (“to restore”), from re- (“re-”) + creāre (“to create”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛkɹɪeɪt/

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recreate (third-person singular simple present recreates, present participle recreating, simple past and past participle recreated)

1. (transitive) To give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven.
   • 1695, C A du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, , London: J Heptinstall for W. Rogers, , →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1688, Henry More, Divine Dialogues:

     These ripe fruit recreate the nostrils with their aromatick scent.

   • 1624, Democritus Junior , The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 5, member 1, subsection v:

     Odoraments to smell to, of rose-water, violet flowers, balm, rose-cakes, vinegar, etc., do much recreate the brains and spirits

2. (reflexive) To enjoy or entertain oneself.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior , chapter II, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition ii, section 3:

     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.

   • 1651, Jer Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. , 2nd edition, London: Francis Ashe , →OCLC:

     St. John, who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge

3. (intransitive) To take recreation.
   • 2004, Forbes, volume 173, numbers 4-9, page 156:

     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.

• (refresh): encourage, enliven, refresh
• (amuse): amuse, delight, enjoy

• recreation

From re- +‎ create.

• re-create

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recreate (third-person singular simple present recreates, present participle recreating, simple past and past participle recreated)

1. (sometimes proscribed) Alternative form of re-create.

Sometimes proscribed by usage guides to prevent confusion with "recreate" (to enjoy oneself).

recreāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of recreō

recreate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of recrear combined with te