Synonyms for recreate
ˈrɛk riˌeɪtrecre·ate

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1. recreate

   To entertain, in the sense here considered, is to engage and pleasantly occupy the attention; to amuse is to occupy the attention in an especially bright and cheerful way, often with that which excites merriment or laughter; as, he entertained us with an amusing story. To divert is to turn from serious thoughts or laborious pursuits to something that lightly and agreeably occupies the mind; one may be entertained or amused who has nothing serious or laborious from which to be diverted. To recreate, literally to re-create, is to engage mind or body in some pleasing activity that restores strength and energy for serious work. To beguile is, as it were, to cheat into cheer and comfort by something that insensibly draws thought or feeling away from pain or disquiet. We beguile a weary hour, cheer the despondent, divert the preoccupied, enliven a dull evening or company, gratify our friends' wishes, entertain, interest, please a listening audience, occupy idle time, disport ourselves when merry, recreate when worn with toil; we amuse ourselves or others with whatever pleasantly passes the time without special exertion, each according to his taste.

   Synonyms:
   amuse, beguile, cheer, delight, disport, divert, enliven, entertain, gratify, interest, occupy, please

   Antonyms:
   annoy, bore, busy, disquiet, distract, disturb, tire, weary

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1. animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivifyverb

   give new life or energy to

   "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"

   Synonyms:
   speed up, furbish up, resuscitate, restitute, compensate, animate, remediate, quicken, fix, amend, enliven, mend, cheer, vivify, animize, accelerate, refurbish, liven up, renovate, bushel, invigorate, speed, inspire, exalt, resurrect, play, hearten, restore, freshen up, rectify, touch on, recompense, animise, remedy, resort, repair, come to, reanimate, embolden, liven, revive, revivify, whet, doctor, indemnify

2. play, recreateverb

   engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion

   "On weekends I play"; "The students all recreate alike"

   Synonyms:
   take on, fiddle, bet, spiel, work, bring, animate, quicken, vivify, run, flirt, trifle, cheer, diddle, meet, play, roleplay, dally, renovate, act, act as, toy, playact, encounter, make for, hearten, wager, represent, repair, reanimate, embolden, revive, revivify, wreak

3. cheer, hearten, recreate, emboldenverb

   give encouragement to

   Synonyms:
   vivify, jolly up, play, root on, reanimate, hearten, urge, renovate, cheer up, exhort, barrack, embolden, urge on, revivify, pep up, chirk up, animate, repair, revive, inspire, jolly along, quicken, cheer

4. recreateverb

   create anew

   "she recreated the feeling of the 1920's with her stage setting"

   Synonyms:
   repair, embolden, hearten, animate, play, reanimate, revive, vivify, renovate, cheer, quicken, revivify

Matched Categories

1. • Create
   • Encourage

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1. recreateverb

   Synonyms:
   refresh, reanimate, entertain, divert, amuse

2. recreateverb

   Synonyms:
   unbend, take recreation, be diverted, be amused

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1. List of paraphrases for "recreate":

   re-create, rebuild, re-establish

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1. John Kavulich:

   Optically, not having Carnival, Norwegian and Royal Caribbean in the marketplace will recreate negative perceptions about Cuba.

2. Michael Raymond-James:

   To come and be able to sit here — it's incredible, i'm sitting where Paul Revere used to come with his fellow Patriots to devise their plan of attack. You can't recreate this feeling — it's like grasping at smoke.

3. Antonin Artaud:

   The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything -- gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness -- rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations. To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre.

4. Devoney Looser:

   If we don't recreate Austen's nineteenth-century stories for our own time, and attract new generations of viewers, then these texts won't live on, so I'm definitely all for adaptations that use Austen's material as an inspiration, and make their own mark on it, rather than treating Jane Austen originals as blueprints that must be religiously copied.

5. Valerie Greenberg:

   Caitlyn Jenner is making a difference and inspiring others suffering like Caitlyn Jenner was where as Kim posed for publicity and to recreate a cool artsy photoshoot.