Meaning

3 senses

  1. (transitive)To give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven.

  2. (reflexive)To enjoy or entertain oneself.

  3. (intransitive)To take recreation.

Examples

15 sentences

  1. I want to recreate my future.

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  2. Traditions help to recreate the home's atmosphere.

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  3. Never attempt to recreate the following experiment.

    deDas folgende Experiment auf keinen Fall nachmachen!

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  4. She's trying to recreate a sense of home.

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  5. It's impossible to recreate the sense of home in London.

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Translations

2 languages

Origin

From Middle English recreate, from the participle stem of Latin recreāre (“to restore”), f

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

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Forms

recreates, recreating, recreated, recreated
Base formrecreate · to recreate
3rd person singularrecreates
Present participlerecreating
Past simplerecreated
Past participlerecreated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyrecreate
he, she, itrecreates

Past simpleLesson

all personsrecreated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave recreated
he, she, ithas recreated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill recreate

Synonyms

6 synonyms
refresh:encourageA2refreshC1enliven
amuse:amuseB2delightB2enjoyA1

Word family

3 related words
RelatedrecreationB2
Derivedrecreatorunrecreated

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
recourseC2recoverB1recoveryB1recreationB2recreationalrecruitB2
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