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to recreate

to recreate

34 5.5
To imagine a scene clearly in your mind
  • verb
  • /ˌriːkrɪˈeɪt/
: recrear
  • We bring our own concerns to the book, and in effect, we recreate it in our images.
  • try to recreate
  • recreate the world
  • recreate imagined communities

Some people will spend decades trying to recreate those first two months.

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Examples

  • Look, this island is an attempt to recreate a natural environment from the past.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • To understand the story better, the teacher asked us to recreate the main events in our minds.

  • Some people will spend decades trying to recreate those first two months.

  • Just trying to recreate that in your own mind.

  • And so I had to recreate my environment.

  • I will do my best to recreate that moment.

  • I want you to mentally recreate every detail.

  • The students get to practice finding solutions and recreating events so that they gain control of the situation.

    Academic text (2003)
  • The ability to listen astutely, describe, and recreate sounds is the foundation for learning language and music.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Creative drama activities allow children to experiment with, rehearse, and recreate actions and words in a social context.

    Academic text (1993)

Synonyms

to relive
vsto recreate
107 3.7

Feel or imagine a past event again in your mind

focuses on building a clear imagined reconstruction rather than emotional replay
to reconstruct
vsto recreate
52 4.8

Make a picture in your mind from available information

is a creative mental recreation rather than analytic rebuilding from evidence
to reproduce
vsto recreate
26 4.0

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

involves imagining and reconstructing details rather than copying something directly
to re-create
vsto recreate
5.4

Picture a past scene again in your mind

is the unhyphenated modern spelling for the same mental forming
to re-experience
vsto recreate
5.5

To feel a past event or emotion again

emphasizes deliberate mental construction of details rather than mere feeling again

Antonyms

∞ 1.0

Not remember something you should remember

How Vivid

to relive
107 3.7
to recreate
34 5.5
to imagine
∞ 1.3
to recall
∞ 2.4

Surface Forms

recreate infinitive
recreated past
recreated past participle
recreating present participle
recreates third person singular

Morphology

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

The formal structure still transparently means 'create again' from the base verb 'create'.

Etymology

Recreate comes from re- 'again' and create 'make'. So to recreate a scene in your mind is to 'make it again' inside your imagination, like replaying a picture from memory.