recreate
/ˈɹɛk.ɹi.eɪt/ verb C1- To give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven.
- To enjoy or entertain oneself.
- To take recreation.
He/she/it recreates · Past recreated · Past participle recreated · -ing form recreating
Verb forms
- Base form
- recreate
- He/she/it
- recreates
- Past
- recreated
- Past participle
- recreated
- -ing form
- recreating
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Elena, who had grown up eating her grandmother's cooking every Sunday, assumed that recreating the dishes would be a piece of cake.
The scent had instantly recreated a forgotten summer afternoon spent building a fort in her grandfather’s dusty, sunlit woodworking shop.
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