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🔁 To make again 💭 To imagine again
to re-create

to re-create

5.4
Picture a past scene again in your mind
  • verb
  • /ˌriːˈkriːeɪt/
translation icon : revivir
  • She can re-create the entire scene from memory.

Examples

  • His mind re-creates lost moments from the past with remarkable detail.

  • Artists often re-create the scenes they remember most vividly from their travels.

  • She tried to re-create the joy of her childhood vacations in her writing.

  • Can you re-create that moment for me?

  • She tried to re-create the joy of her childhood vacations in her writing.

  • Artists often re-create the scenes they remember most vividly from their travels.

  • His mind re-creates lost moments from the past with remarkable detail.

Synonyms

to relive
vsto re-create
107 3.7

Feel or imagine a past event again in your mind

forms a reconstructed image rather than simply re-experiencing
to reconstruct
vsto re-create
52 4.8

Make a picture in your mind from available information

relies on imagination and internal recall rather than external data
to recreate
vsto re-create
34 5.5

To imagine a scene clearly in your mind

is written with a hyphen instead of as one word
to recapture
vsto re-create
26 6.0

To bring back a past feeling or quality

aims to reconstruct visual detail rather than only restore feeling
to reproduce
vsto re-create
26 4.0

To make a sound, image, or mood again so it feels like the original

focuses on reconstructing an image in the mind rather than copying
to retrace
vsto re-create
12 4.4

To think back over the events or steps that led to something

focuses on forming a full imaginative scene rather than just steps
to rerun
vsto re-create
3 2.9

Repeat a test or experiment to check the results

involves mentally forming the scene again, not performing it again

Antonyms

to forget
∞ 1.0

Not remember something you should remember

How Vivid

to relive
107 3.7
to re-create
5.4
to visualize
  • US
75 3.8
to imagine
∞ 1.3

Surface Forms

re-create infinitive
re-created past
re-created past participle
re-creating present participle
re-creates third person singular

Morphology

re-create = create (semi-transparent) = re + create

The structure still means 'create again', but the specific sense of mentally reconstructing a remembered scene is a somewhat specialized extension.

Etymology

Re-create has the part re- meaning 'again' and create from the Latin creare meaning 'to make'. So to re-create in your mind is to 'make again' an image or memory, like when an artist remembers a scene and paints it.