relive

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/ɹiːˈlɪv/

verb

To experience (something) again; to live over again.

“I relive that horrible accident every night and wake screaming.”

Similar
live over
OriginEnglish live ← Middle English lefe ← Old French re- →
Less commonFirst used 18th c.Scrabble 9
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Meanings

verbrelive (third-person singular simple present relives, present participle reliving, simple past and past participle relived)

present singular third person relives · participle present reliving · participle past relived · past relived

  1. transitiveTo experience (something) again; to live over again.First known use 18th c.

    I relive that horrible accident every night and wake screaming.

    1 more example

    Replays in video games allow you to relive your greatest moments.

  2. obsoletetransitiveTo bring back to life; to revive, resuscitate.First known use 16th–17th c.

    Had she not beene devoide of mortall slime, / Shee should not then have bene relyv'd againe [...].

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  3. intransitiveTo come back to life.

Synonyms & antonyms

verbexperience again, often in the imagination

Similar
live over
Broader
knowexperiencelive

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Middle Englishlefe
  7. Englishlive
  8. Englishrelive

From re- + live.

Full word history & related roots →

Translations

Arabic أَحْيَا
  • أَحْيَا (ʔaḥyā)to experience again
Bulgarian преживявам отново, оживявам
  • преживявам отново (preživjavam otnovo)to experience again
  • оживявам (oživjavam)to come back to life
Finnish elää uudelleen, kokea uudelleen
  • elää uudelleento experience again
  • kokea uudelleento experience again
  • käydä läpi uudelleento experience again
  • virotato come back to life
French revivre
  • revivreto come back to life
Italian rivivere
  • rivivereto experience again
Polish przeżyć na nowo
  • przeżyć na nowoto experience again
Portuguese reviver, reviver
  • reviverto experience again
  • reviverto come back to life
Romanian retrăi
  • retrăito experience again
Russian переживать, оживать
  • переживать (pereživatʹ)to experience again
  • оживать (oživatʹ)to come back to life
Spanish revivir, revivir
  • revivirto experience again
  • revivirto come back to life
Swedish återuppleva
  • återupplevato experience again
Ukrainian пережива́ти, пережи́ти
  • пережива́ти (perežyváty)to experience again
  • пережи́ти (perežýty)to experience again
  • ожива́ти (ožyváty)to come back to life
  • відро́джуватися (vidródžuvatysja)to come back to life
  • відроди́тися (vidrodýtysja)to come back to life

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with relive

livegivedivforgiveLIVexpansivesedativeshivinvectiveoutliveshivechivspivTel Avivunlive
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Anagrams

revilereveilveilerlevier
Cite this entry
APA

relive. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/relive

MLA

“relive.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/relive. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “relive,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/relive.

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