'Recreate' definitions:
Definition of 'recreate'
(from WordNet)
verb
Give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health" [syn: animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify]
verb
Engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion; "On weekends I play"; "The students all recreate alike" [syn: play, recreate]
verb
verb
Create anew; "she recreated the feeling of the 1920's with her stage setting"
Definition of 'Recreate'
From: GCIDE
- Recreate \Rec"re*ate\, v. i. To take recreation. --L. Addison. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Recreate'
From: GCIDE
- Recreate \Rec"re*ate\ (rk"r*t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Recreated (-`td); p. pr. & vb. n. Recreating.] [L. recreatus, p. p. of recreate to create anew, to refresh; pref. re- re- + creare to create. See Create.] 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- St. John, who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- These ripe fruits recreate the nostrils with their aromatic scent. --Dr. H. More. [1913 Webster]