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to re-experience

to re-experience

5.5
To feel a past event or emotion again
  • verb
  • /ˌriːɪkˈspɪərɪəns/
translation icon : revivir
  • When I read that book again, I was able to re-experience the emotions I felt as a child.

And if I would try to dive in and re experience something, everything would disappear and then they would come back.

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Examples

  • Is it the pleasure the painting gives us, We the viewers perhaps allowing us to re experience a starry night?

  • People began to re experience the rabbi as if he were still alive.

  • To be able to have the power to go back and re experience those things is it's silly to me.

  • So that means we can re experience the the those exciting moments anytime, anywhere.

  • And if I would try to dive in and re experience something, everything would disappear and then they would come back.

  • And I go, OK, it's not, it's not going to impact me the way you think it is only because you, as you tell it, re re experience everything you went through.

  • They can re experience their whole life and it it doesn't matter how long they were clinically dead on earth.

  • Many people find comfort in music because it allows them to re-experience cherished memories from their youth.

  • Therapy can help individuals re-experience past traumas in a safe environment to process their feelings.

Synonyms

to relive
vsto re-experience
107 3.7

Feel or imagine a past event again in your mind

is to feel them again in the present rather than only remember
to recapture
vsto re-experience
26 6.0

To bring back a past feeling or quality

is to experience past things again more generally
to re-create
vsto re-experience
5.4

Picture a past scene again in your mind

is to feel past experiences again rather than just rebuild images

Antonyms

1.0

Not remember something you should remember

How Intense

to relive
107 3.7
to re-experience
5.5
to remember
1.0
to recall
2.4

Surface Forms

re-experience infinitive
re-experienced past participle
re-experiencing present participle
re-experiences third person singular

Morphology

re-experience = experience (transparent) = re + experience

This is regular prefixation: 're-' adds the meaning 'again' to the verb 'experience'.

Etymology

Re-experience is made of re- 'again' and experience 'to feel or live through'. It is like relive or replay — to feel a past event or emotion once more.