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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

REC'REATE, v.t. [L. recero; re and creo, to create.]
1. To refresh after toil; to reanimate, as languid spirits or exhausted strength; to amuse or divert in weariness.
Painters when they work on white grounds, place before them colors mixed with blue and green, to recreate their eyes.
St. John is said to have recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge.
2. To gratify; to delight.
These ripe fruits recreate the nostrils with their aromatic scent.
3. To relieve; to revive; as, to recreate the lungs with fresh air.
REC'REATE, v.i. To take recreation.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health" [syn: animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify]
2: engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion; "On weekends I play"; "The students all recreate alike" [syn: play, recreate]
3: give encouragement to [syn: cheer, hearten, recreate, embolden] [ant: dishearten, put off]
4: create anew; "she recreated the feeling of the 1920's with her stage setting"

Merriam Webster's

verb (-ated; -ating) Etymology: Latin recreatus, past participle of recreare Date: 15th century transitive verb to give new life or freshness to ; refresh intransitive verb to take recreation • recreative adjective

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Recreate Rec"re*ate (rk"r*t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Recreated (-`td); p. pr. & vb. n. Recreating.] [L. recreatus, p. p. of recreate to create anew, to refresh; pref. re- re- + creare to create. See Create.] 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. Painters, when they work on white grounds, place before them colors mixed with blue and green, to recreate their eyes, white wearying . . . the sight more than any. --Dryden. St. John, who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge. --Jer. Taylor. These ripe fruits recreate the nostrils with their aromatic scent. --Dr. H. More.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Recreate Rec"re*ate, v. i. To take recreation. --L. Addison.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(recreates, recreating, recreated) If you recreate something, you succeed in making it exist or seem to exist in a different time or place to its original time or place. I am trying to recreate family life far from home. VERB: V n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. 1. Refresh, entertain, divert, amuse, cheer, enliven. 2. Delight, gratify, please. 3. Relieve, revive, reanimate. II. v. n. Unbend, take recreation, be diverted, be amused.