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1. Give new life or energy to
   - animate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify
    
2. Create anew
   "she recreated the feeling of the 1920's with her stage setting"
    
3. Give encouragement to
   - cheer, hearten, embolden
    
4. Engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion
   "The students all recreate alike"
   - play

1. Create anew
   "Re-create the boom of the West on a small scale"
    
2. Make a replica of
   "re-create a picture by Rembrandt"
   - copy
    
3. Form anew in the imagination; recollect and re-form in the mind
   "His mind re-creates the entire world"

Derived forms: recreated, recreates, recreating, re-created, re-creates, re-creating

See also: re-created, recreation, re-creation

Type of: arouse, brace, create, create by mental act, create mentally, encourage, energise [Brit], energize, make, perk up, stimulate