to recycle
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2.6
- verb
- /rɪˈsaɪkl/
:
reciclar
- Many cities provide bins for residents to recycle bottles and cans easily.
- recycle waste
- recycle materials
- reduce, reuse, recycle
So we also recycle old climbing ropes.
- So we also recycle old climbing ropes.
- For ages now I've just wanted to recycle all of this and now I can.
- We haven't found an economical way to recycle them.
- Unless you have severe in stage kidney disease, your body's very good at recycling proteins.
- They actually eat it, and they fully recycle it fully, right?
- I was AI would collect the beer bottles at a local pool and recycle them.
Examples
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Survey respondents also want to recycle more materials, mainly plastic packaging, wooden crates, and cardboard.
Academic text (1999) -
And their number one choice was to recycle newspapers.
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So you got to find some way to recycle all of this stuff.
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Listen here, you have to recycle the waste.
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Are you going to recycle that?
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Can you please recycle that?
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I was going to recycle them.
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And please recycle this after reading.
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We recycle paper, we should recycle banana leaves too.
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Community-wide efforts to reduce and recycle household waste at the curbside must be supported.
Academic text (1992)
Synonyms
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3.9
Take useful materials from waste to use again
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2.3
To use something again after cleaning or fixing it
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3.7
To take useful materials from waste so they can be used again
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4.7
Treat something again so it can be used or made better
To use something again after fixing it or for a new purpose
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Etymology
The word recycle comes from re- 'again' and cycle 'a circle or repeated process'. So to recycle something is to send it back into the circle to be made useful 'again'.