recreate
/ˈɹɛk.ɹi.eɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.52 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Alternative form of re-create.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "These ripe fruit[…] recreate the nostrils with their aromatick scent."
- "Odoraments to smell to, of rose-water, violet flowers, balm, rose-cakes, vinegar, etc., do much recreate the brains and spirits […]"
- "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."
- "St. John, who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge"
- "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."
Etymology
From Middle English recreate, from the participle stem of Latin recreāre (“to restore”), from re- (“re-”) + creāre (“to create”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: recreate, recreō