RECREATE

Definitions: RECREATE

RECREATE

Intransitive verb

1. To take recreation.

Transitive verb

1. To give fresh life to; to reanimate; to revive; especially, to refresh after wearying toil or anxiety; to relieve; to cheer; to divert; to amuse; to gratify.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "RECREATE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Amusement	Recreate, solace, cheer, rejoice; please; interest; treat, regale.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: RECREATE

English words defined with "RECREATE": play ♦ Recreated, Recreating, Recreative, reproduce ♦ To refresh the memory. (references)

Specialty definitions using "RECREATE": magnetic reading head, magnetic reproducing head. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Mr. Simpson, we want you to recreate your every move the night you saw the alien. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)
Lyrics	Tryin' hard to recreate ("What A Fool Believes"; performing artist: Doobie Brothers)
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Domain	Title
Books	Classic Garden Design: How to Adapt and Recreate Garden Features of the Past (reference) Creative Imagination: The Power to Recreate Your World (reference) Folk Quilts and How to Recreate Them (reference) How Nature Taught Man to Know, Imagine, and Reason: How Language and Literature Recreate Nature's Lessons (American University Studies. Series Xiii,) (reference) Novel Cuisine: Recipes That Recreate the Culinary Highlights of Favorite Novels (reference) (more book examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The standards for assisted living should not allow substandard care, but neither can the regulatory mechanisms so restrict care as to recreate nursing home conditions. (references)
		Effective environmental sanitation reduces the risk of persons being bitten by infectious fleas of rodents and other animals in places where people live, work, and recreate. (references)
		Axons that reached the brain found the appropriate layers and parts of cells in the brain, but failed to recreate the proper, orderly representation of the visual world on the brain. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"RECREATE" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 90.45% of the time. "RECREATE" is used about 220 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	90.45%	199	21,651
Lexical Verb (base form)	8.18%	18	82,615
Noun (singular)	0.91%	2	245,945
Adjective (general or positive)	0.45%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	220	N/A

Expression using "RECREATE": recreate oneself. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "RECREATE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		dëfrehem, argëtoj (amuse, beguile, divert, entertain, regale), çlodhem (relax, repose, rest, take a rest), çlodh (recuperate, repose, rest, wind). (various references)

Arabic		‏بعث يخلق من جديد. (various references)

Bulgarian		развличам (amuse, divert), освежавам (exhilarate, freshen, freshen up, invigorate, irrigate, refresh, renovate, rub up). (various references)

Chinese		再创� (re-create, Recreated, re-created, Recreating). (various references)

Czech		zotavit se (convalesce, get better, mend, pick up, recover, recuperate, refresh), pobavit se (disport oneself). (various references)

Farsi		وسیله تفریح رافراهم کردن , تفریح کردن (Game, Play), تفریح دادن (Amuse, Entertain), تمدداعصاب کردن (Relax), ازنوخلق کردن . (various references)

French		recréer. (various references)

German		wiederschaffen, wiederbeleben (resurrect, resusciate, resuscitate, revival, revive, revivify, to resusciate, to resuscitate, to revive, to revivify), nachschaffen. (various references)

Greek		αναδημιουργώ. (various references)

Hungarian		felüdít (freshen, refresh, to brace, to enliven, to exhilarate, to freshen, to refresh, to reinvigorate). (various references)

Indonesian		melukiskan kembali. (various references)

Italian		ricreare (relax, revive), divertire (amuse, amuse oneself, divert, enjoy oneself, entertain, have fun, panic). (various references)

Korean		휴양하십시�" (re-create). (various references)

Manx		aachroo (reform, restoration, retrace). (various references)

Pig Latin		ecreateray

Portuguese		recrear-se, recrear, entreter-se (fricassee), entreter (amuse, divert, entertain, have, wile), divertir-se (dally, disposable, enjoy, feast, flirt, frolic, fun, funambulist, gambol, jollify, lark, merry-make, move away, play, wassail), divertir (amuse, amusing, beguile, disport oneself, divert, entertain, exhilarate, jollify, Kittle, tickle), distrair-se (nod off), distrair (abstract, call away, distract, divert, enliven, entertain, mind-breaker, neglect). (various references)

Romanian		relaxa (relax, rest, unbend), recrea (refresh, rest), se recrea (rest), se deconecta, se amuza (dally, enjoy oneself, have a good time, sport), distra (amuse, divert, enjoy, entertain), amuza (amuse, divert, entertain, tickle). (various references)

Russian		воссоздавать (reconstitute, reconstruct). (various references)

Scottish		ùraich (be renewed, become, refresh). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ponovo stvoriti (regenerate). (various references)

Spanish		recrear (re-create). (various references)

Swedish		återskapa (reproduce). (various references)

Turkish		tazelemek (brush up, freshen, freshen up, refresh, renew, renovate, rub up, top up), eğlendirmek (amuse, beguile, break up, divert, entertain, feast, regale, tickle), dinlendirmek (let rest, repose, resettle, rest), canlandırmak (accelerate, animate, arouse, brace, bring to life, brisk, brisk up, characterize, drum up, enact, enliven, exhilarate, fortify, freshen, furbish up, galvanize, ginger, ginger up, give a fresh impetus to, hearten, impersonate, innervate, inspire, inspirit, interpret, invigorate, jazz, jazz up, jog, key up, liven, liven up, pep up, perform, personalize, personate, personify, play, play the role of, portray, quicken, rake up, rally, refresh, regenerate, represent, revitalize, revive, revivify, rouse, rouse up, smarten, smarten up, spirit, spirit up, stimulate, tone up, touch up, uplift, vitalize, vivify, wake, waken). (various references)

Ukranian		відновлювати сили (revive), зацікавлювати (intrigue, take hold). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "RECREATE": recreated, recreates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"RECREATE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: racenate, receite, recenate, Recercare, recleate, recrate, Recreatie. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "RECREATE" (pronounced re"krēā't)
4	-r ē ā' t	excoriate, expatriate, expropriate, infuriate, misappropriate, repatriate.
3	-ē ā' t	abbreviate, affiliate, alleviate, appreciate, delineate, depreciate, deviate, differentiate, emaciate, enunciate, expiate, foliate, glaciate, herniate, humiliate, ingratiate, initiate, irradiate, mediate, nauseate, negotiate, obviate, officiate, permeate, radiate, renegotiate, renunciate, repudiate, retaliate, substantiate.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-r-r-t"
	-1 letter: caterer, erecter, recrate, reerect, retrace, terrace.
	-2 letters: career, carter, cerate, crater, create, ecarte, retear, tearer, terrae, tracer.
	-3 letters: arete, carer, caret, carte, cater, crate, eater, erect, racer, rater, react, recta, tarre, terce, terra, trace.
	-4 letters: acre, care, carr, cart, cate, cere, cete, race, rare, rate, rear, rete, tace, tare, tear, tree.
	-5 letters: ace, act, arc, are, art, ate, car, cat, cee, ear, eat, era, ere, err, eta, rat, rec, ree, ret, tae, tar, tea, tee.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-e-r-r-t"
	+1 letter: cerebrate, racketeer, recreated, recreates.
	+2 letters: cerebrated, cerebrates, desecrater, racketeers, recarpeted, recreative, recuperate, redecorate, reentrance.
	+3 letters: carpentered, cartwheeler, decelerator, decerebrate, desecraters, overreacted, racketeered, rechartered, recuperated, recuperates, redecorated, redecorates, reentrances, secretaries, treacheries.
	+4 letters: cartwheelers, decelerators, decerebrated, decerebrates, generatrices, heterocercal, overdecorate, racketeering, reaccelerate, reaccredited, reconsecrate, recuperative, tercentenary, transference, underreacted, watercresses.
	+5 letters: accelerometer, bureaucratese, catercornered, decerebrating, decerebration, electrodermal, hyperreactive, metacercariae, overdecorated, overdecorates, reaccelerated, reaccelerates, reconcentrate, reconsecrated, reconsecrates, refractometer, reorchestrate, transferences, weathercaster.
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