recreate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb give new life or energy to
    repair; revivify; reanimate; revive; renovate; vivify; animate; quicken.
    • A hot soup will revive me
    • This will renovate my spirits
    • This treatment repaired my health
  2. verb engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion
    play.
    • On weekends I play
    • The students all recreate alike
  3. verb give encouragement to
    embolden; cheer; hearten.
  4. verb create anew
    • she recreated the feeling of the 1920's with her stage setting

WordNet

Rec"re*ate transitive verb
Etymology
L. recreatus, p. p. of recreate to create anew, to refresh; pref. re- re- + creare to create. See Create.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Recreated present participle & verbal noun Recreating
Definitions
  1. 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.
    Painters, when they work on white grounds, place before them colors mixed with blue and green, to recreate their eyes, white wearying . . . the sight more than any. Dryden.
    St. John, who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge. Jer. Taylor.
    These ripe fruits recreate the nostrils with their aromatic scent. Dr. H. More.
Rec"re*ate intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To take recreation. L. Addison.

Webster 1913