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Verb: recreate  ,re-kree'eyt or ,ree-kree'eyt
  1. Form anew in the imagination; recollect and re-form in the mind
    - re-create
     
  2. Produce or make another of
    "she recreated the feeling of the 1920's with her stage setting";
    - re-create
     
  3. Engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion
    "The students all recreate alike";
    - play
     
  4. Give encouragement to
    - cheer, hearten, embolden
     
  5. Make a replica of
    - copy, re-create
     
  6. Give new life or energy to
    - animate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify

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

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