recreate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: recreate	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for recreate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
recreate v give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health" Synonym(s): animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion; "On weekends I play"; "The students all recreate alike" Synonym(s): play, recreate give encouragement to Synonym(s): cheer, hearten, recreate, embolden Antonym(s): dishearten, put off create anew; "she recreated the feeling of the 1920's with her stage setting"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Re-create \Re`-create"\ (r?`kr??t"), v. t. [Pref. re- + create.] To create or form anew. On opening the campaign of 1776, instead of re[89]nforcing, it was necessary to re-create, the army. --Marshall.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Recreate \Rec"reate\ (rk"rt), 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. 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Recreate \Rec"re*ate\, v. i. To take recreation. --L. Addison.