Antonyms 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.

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

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

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1. • Create
   • Encourage

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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

How to use recreate in a sentence?

1. Project Revoice co-creator:

   This technology is 100 percent dependent on having consistent, high-quality voice material to work with. Since ALS/MND is a progressive and sometimes unpredictable disease, we believe it’s crucial to get the message out now and encourage more people to start voice banking while they still can, so they have the voice material necessary to recreate their ‘Revoice’ when the full application launches.

2. Mitch McConnell:

   Abandoning this fight now and withdrawing U.S. forces from Syria would recreate the very conditions that we have worked hard to destroy and invite the resurgence of ISIS.

3. Dejan Stojanovic:

   I recreate myself; that is my only power.

4. Adrianne Shropshire:

   Elections and voter mobilization in black communities are a communal collective activity. There is a cultural dynamic that is at play here that is being affected, that's part of the challenge with vote by mail, we have to find ways to recreate that collective political action.

5. 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.

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