Pronunciations (3)
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/ˈɹɛk.ɹi.eɪt/
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ɹiːkɹɪˈeɪt
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ˈɹɛkɹɪeɪt
Verb
To give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven.
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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.
These ripe fruit[…] recreate the nostrils with their aromatick scent.
Odoraments to smell to, of rose-water, violet flowers, balm, rose-cakes, vinegar, etc., do much recreate the brains and spirits […]
To enjoy or entertain oneself.
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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.
St. John, who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge
To take recreation.
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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.
form anew in the imagination; recollect and re-form in the mind
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His mind re-creates the entire world
give new life or energy to
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A hot soup will revive me
This will renovate my spirits
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This treatment repaired my health
produce or make another of
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Re-create the boom of the West on a small scale
she recreated the feeling of the 1920's with her stage setting
make a replica of
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copy that drawing
re-create a picture by Rembrandt
engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion
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On weekends I play
The students all recreate alike
give encouragement to
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