1. Engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion
   "The students all recreate alike";
   - play
    
2. Give new life or energy to
   "The vacation recreated their enthusiasm for work";
   - animate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify
    
3. Make a replica of
   "recreate that drawing";
   - copy, re-create
    
4. Produce or make another of
   "she recreated the feeling of the 1920's with her stage setting";
   - re-create
    
5. Form anew in the imagination; recollect and re-form in the mind
   "His mind recreates the entire world";
   - re-create
    
6. Give encouragement to
   "The coach's words recreated the team's confidence";
   - cheer, hearten, embolden

Derived forms: re-creating, re-created, re-creates, recreating, recreates, recreated

Type of: act, arouse, brace, create, create by mental act, create mentally, encourage, energise [Brit], energize, make, move, perk up, stimulate, stir

Antonym: dishearten