recreate

present singular third person recreates · participle present recreating · participle past recreated · past recreated

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

   These ripe fruit[…] recreate the nostrils with their aromatick scent.

   1688, Henry More, Divine Dialogues

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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.

   1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC

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

   1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], 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

   Synonyms: encourage, enliven, refresh

2. reflexiveTo enjoy or entertain oneself.

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

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

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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.

   1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], chapter II, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition ii, section 3

   Synonyms: amuse, delight, enjoy

3. intransitiveTo take recreation.

   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.

   2004, Forbes, volume 173, numbers 4-9, page 156

present singular third person recreates · participle present recreating · participle past recreated · past recreated · alternative re-create

1. alternativeproscribedsometimesAlternative form of re-create.