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Recreate   /rˈɛkriˌeɪt/  /rikriˈeɪt/   Listen
verb
Recreate  v. t.  (past & past part. recreated; pres. part. recreating)  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." "St. John, who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge." "These ripe fruits recreate the nostrils with their aromatic scent."



Recreate  v. i.  To take recreation.






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... and other necessary documents. It was not until October that the Parliament met. During the interval the king was lodged in a country place not far from London, where every effort was made to enable him to pass his time agreeably, by giving him an opportunity to hunt, and to amuse and recreate himself with other out-door amusements. All the while, however, a strict watch was kept over him to prevent the possibility of his making his escape, or of the friends of the queen coming secretly to take ...
— Margaret of Anjou - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott

... body has vanished from the earth, men try by every means to recreate this body in marble, iron, bronze, or stone, on an enormous scale. As if there were any intrinsic value in the bodily existence of such divine martyrs and servants of humanity, who despised the flesh and lived only for the spirit! But ...
— Concerning the Spiritual in Art • Wassily Kandinsky

... now upon a department of our science which treats of forces which work upon the earth from within, and increase the inequalities of its surface. It is they which uplift and recreate the lands which the agents of denudation are continually destroying; it is they which deepen the ocean bed and thus withdraw its waters from the shores. At times also these forces have aided in the destruction ...
— The Elements of Geology • William Harmon Norton

... there was the boy. The little Vicomte, the future Duc de Marny, who would in his life and with his youth recreate the glory of the family, and make France once more ring with the echo of brave deeds and gallant adventures, which had made the name of Marny so glorious in camp ...
— I Will Repay • Baroness Emmuska Orczy

... these diverse titles, the work brought before the Court merits severe blame, since the mission of literature should be to ornament and recreate the mind by raising the intelligence and purifying manners, rather than by showing the disgust of vice in offering a picture of disorder which may exist in ...
— The Public vs. M. Gustave Flaubert • Various


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