recreate

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven. transitive
    — 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.
  2. Alternative form of re-create. alt-of,alternative,proscribed,sometimes
  3. To enjoy or entertain oneself. reflexive
    — 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.
  4. To take recreation. intransitive
    — 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.

词形变化

recreates present,singular,third-person recreating participle,present recreated participle,past recreated past recreates present,singular,third-person recreating participle,present recreated participle,past recreated past re-create alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
recreator unrecreated
相关词
recreation

词源

词源 1
From Middle English recreate, from the participle stem of Latin recreāre (“to restore”), from re- (“re-”) + creāre (“to create”).
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English create
English recreate
From re- + create.
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