recreate

To give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven.

Verb

To give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven.
- Painters, when they work on white grounds, place before them colours mixed with blue and green, to recreate their eyes, white wearying […] the sight more than any. - 1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by...
- These ripe fruit[…] recreate the nostrils with their aromatick scent. - 1688, Henry More, Divine Dialogues:
- Odoraments to smell to, of rose-water, violet flowers, balm, rose-cakes, vinegar, etc., do much recreate the brains and spirits […] - 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […],...
To enjoy or entertain oneself.
- In Italy, though they bide in cities in winter, which is more gentlemanlike, all the summer they come abroad to their country-houses, to recreate themselves. - 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], chapter...
- St. John, who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge - 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:
To take recreation.
- Phonecams are proliferating like mad, their tiny eyes fuzzily probing so many corners of public and private life that they have begun to alter how people communicate and recreate. - 2004, Forbes, volume 173, numbers...

From Middle English recreate, from the participle stem of Latin recreāre (“to restore”), from re- (“re-”) + creāre (“to create”).

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re-bor. Middle English re- English re- English create English recreate From re- + create.