recreate
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
verb
Other Word Forms
- recreative adjective
- recreatively adverb
- recreativeness noun
- recreator noun
Etymology
Origin of recreate
1425–75; late Middle English recreaten < Latin recreātus (past participle of recreāre to create again, revive), equivalent to re- re- + creātus; create
Example Sentences
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Rather than being adaptations, they’re more like fan-service brand extensions that simply recreate the characters and action that fans have loved for decades.
Years later, on a different kind of bad day — heartsick, this time — I tried to recreate it.
From Salon
It’s lively and funny, but it doesn’t reimagine the film or fully recreate its propulsive energy.
Their experiments recreated typical lab conditions, such as a gloved hand touching filters, microscope slides, and other equipment used during analysis.
From Science Daily
The workers have carefully recreated this indigenous mortar, once widely used in the Mughal era, but now largely replaced by cement in modern construction.
From BBC
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