Lexic.us

Definition of Re-create

1. Verb. Create anew. "Re-create the boom of the West on a small scale"

2. Verb. Make a replica of. "Re-create a picture by Rembrandt"

3. Verb. Form anew in the imagination; recollect and re-form in the mind. "Did he re-create his major works over a short period of time?"; "His mind re-creates the entire world"

Definition of Re-create

1. Verb. To create again. ¹

2. Verb. To create a likeness or copy of. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Re-create

re-attached re-attaches re-attaching re-cognise re-cognize re-constrict re-constricted re-constricting re-constriction re-constrictions

re-constricts re-cover re-covered re-covering re-covers re-create (current term) re-created re-creation re-creations re-demption

re-dye re-dying re-echo re-echoed re-echoes re-echoing re-echos re-edit re-edited re-editing

Literary usage of Re-create

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Aphorisms and Reflections by John Lancaster Spalding (1901)
"... outgrow, and re-create them. WHEN we do what we feel to be eternally right and the best, God is with us and we are conscious of His presence. ..."

2. The Backup Book: Disaster Recovery from Desktop to Data Center by Dorian J. Cougias, E. L. Heiberger, Karsten Koop (2003)
"C. If you can't restore the data, you'll have to re-create it. Re-creating the data costs time—which, as we all know, is money. At best, the additional time ..."

3. The Golden Poppy by Emory Evans Smith (1902)
"... may we be permitted to pray for the appearance on the scene of a poet- painter who in the echoes of yonder bells will re-create on a grand canvas the ..."

4. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from by Samuel Johnson, Henry John Todd, Alexander Chalmers (1824)
".I/ore. To relieve ; to revive. Harvey. RE'CREATE. vn To take recreation. ECREATION. ns Relief after toil or pain ; amusement in ..."

5. Christianity and Modern Infidelity: Their Relative Intellectual Claims Compared by Williams Morgan (1859)
"... re-create us from the second dust—the dust of our own death and dissolution. What can be more consistent with the first instincts of the heart, ..."

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