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recreate

verb
/ˈɹɛk.ɹi.eɪt//ɹiː.kɹiˈeɪt/

Etymology

From Middle English recreate, from the participle stem of Latin recreāre (“to restore”), from re- (“re-”) + creāre (“to create”).

  1. derived from recreō
  2. inherited from recreate

Definitions

  1. To give new life, energy or encouragement (to)

    To give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven.

    • Painters, when they work on white grounds, place before them colours mixed with blue and green, to recreate their eyes, white wearying […] the sight more than any.
    • These ripe fruit[…] recreate the nostrils with their aromatick scent.
    • Odoraments to smell to, of rose-water, violet flowers, balm, rose-cakes, vinegar, etc., do much recreate the brains and spirits […]

  2. To enjoy or entertain oneself.

    • In Italy, though they bide in cities in winter, which is more gentlemanlike, all the summer they come abroad to their country-houses, to recreate themselves.
    • St. John, who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge

  3. To take recreation.

    • Phonecams are proliferating like mad, their tiny eyes fuzzily probing so many corners of public and private life that they have begun to alter how people communicate and recreate.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Alternative form of re-create.

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Derived

recreator, unrecreated

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at recreate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at recreate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at recreate

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA