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Definition of "recreate" []

  • To impart fresh life to; refresh mentally or physically. (verb-transitive)
  • To take recreation. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "recreate" in a sentence
  • "While, the absence of dialogues, the lack of colors and the intertitles recreate the look and feel of early mute films."
  • "With all of the digital display talk going around, you tend to forget what those displays are actually trying to recreate, which is really very organic smears on a thin fabric."
  • "You may want to retry the WaitNamedPipe a couple of time before calling recreate the namedpipe handle."