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Recreate   /rˈɛkriˌeɪt/  /rikriˈeɪt/   Listen
Recreate

verb
(past & past part. recreated; pres. part. recreating)
1.
Give new life or energy to.  Synonyms: animate, quicken, reanimate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify.  "This will renovate my spirits" , "This treatment repaired my health"
2.
Engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion.  Synonym: play.  "The students all recreate alike"
3.
Give encouragement to.  Synonyms: cheer, embolden, hearten.  Antonym: dishearten.
4.
Create anew.






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"Recreate" Quotes from Famous Books



... of us to do our duty. The call is ringing in your ears. Do not worry over the charge of treason to your masters, but be concerned about the treason that involves yourself. This year we are going to sweep into power and in this nation we are going to destroy capitalistic institutions and recreate them.... The world of capital is collapsing. We need industrial builders. We Socialists are the builders of the world that is to be. We are inviting you this afternoon. Join ...
— The Debs Decision • Scott Nearing

... dear and magnanimous 1365, you are going to recreate Tom Sawyer dramatically, and then do me the compliment to put me in the bills as father of this shady offspring. Sir, do you know that this kind of a compliment has destroyed people before ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... dough, each grain of the lump, as it is leavened and transformed, becomes the medium for passing on the mysterious transforming influence to the particle beyond, so every one of us, if we have been brought out of darkness into marvellous light, have been so brought, not only that we may recreate and bathe our own eyes in the flooding sunshine, but that we may turn to our brothers and ask them to come too out of the doleful night into the cheerful, gladsome day. Every man that Jesus Christ conquers on the field He sends behind Him, and ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John • Alexander Maclaren

... traditional origin of the "eneepee," which has ever since been deemed essential to the Indian's effort to purify and recreate his spirit. It is used both by the doctor and by his patient. Every man must enter the cleansing bath and take the cold plunge which follows, when preparing for any spiritual crisis, for ...
— The Soul of the Indian - An Interpretation • [AKA Ohiyesa], Charles A. Eastman

... was the best of pulpits, in those days: poets stood much nearer the world then than for all the force of the printing-press they can hope to do now. So, if they could preach back its sacredness to the soil of Italy; if they could recreate the ideal of the old agricultural life; something might be done towards (among other things) checking the unwholesome crowding to the capital,—as great an evil then as now. Through Maecenas and directly Augustus influenced Virgil, the laureate; ...
— The Crest-Wave of Evolution • Kenneth Morris


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