re-create
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re-create
(ˌriːkrɪˈeɪt)vb
to create anew; reproduce
ˌre-creˈator n
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re-cre•ate
(ˌri kriˈeɪt)v.t. -at•ed, -at•ing.
to create anew.
[1580–90]
rec•re•ate
(ˈrɛk riˌeɪt)v. -at•ed, -at•ing. v.t.
1. to refresh through recreation.
v.i. 2. to take recreation.
rec′re•a`tive, adj.
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re-create
Past participle: re-created
Gerund: re-creating
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Verb | 1. | re-create - create anew; "Re-create the boom of the West on a small scale" regenerate - replace (tissue or a body part) through the formation of new tissue; "The snake regenerated its tail" regenerate, renew - reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new; "We renewed our friendship after a hiatus of twenty years"; "They renewed their membership" fictionalise, fictionalize, retell - make into fiction; "The writer fictionalized the lives of his parents in his latest novel" counterfeit, fake, forge - make a copy of with the intent to deceive; "he faked the signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; "She forged a Green Card" interpret, represent - create an image or likeness of; "The painter represented his wife as a young girl" stage, present, represent - perform (a play), especially on a stage; "we are going to stage `Othello'" perform - give a performance (of something); "Horowitz is performing at Carnegie Hall tonight"; "We performed a popular Gilbert and Sullivan opera" act, play, represent - play a role or part; "Gielgud played Hamlet"; "She wants to act Lady Macbeth, but she is too young for the role"; "She played the servant to her husband's master" reenact - enact or perform again; "They reenacted the battle of Princeton" |
2. | re-create - make a replica of; "copy that drawing"; "re-create a picture by Rembrandt" manifold - make multiple copies of; "multiply a letter" imitate - make a reproduction or copy of trace - copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of; "trace a design"; "trace a pattern" back up - make a copy of (a computer file) especially for storage in another place as a security copy; "You'd better back up these files!" hectograph - copy on a duplicator; "hectograph the hand-outs" clone - make multiple identical copies of; "people can clone a sheep nowadays" mimeo, mimeograph - print copies from (a prepared stencil) using a mimeograph; "She mimeographed the syllabus" roneo - make copies on a Roneograph | |
3. | re-create - form anew in the imagination; recollect and re-form in the mind; "His mind re-creates the entire world" create by mental act, create mentally - create mentally and abstractly rather than with one's hands reproduce - recreate a sound, image, idea, mood, atmosphere, etc.; "this DVD player reproduces the sound of the piano very well"; "He reproduced the feeling of sadness in the portrait" |
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re-create
verbTo make new or as if new again:
Idiom: give a new look to.
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Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
re-create
(riːkriˈeit) verb to describe or show realistically. In the film, they had tried to recreate the horrors of the war.
ˌre-creˈation nounKernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.