re-create

v.tr. create over again.
Derivatives:
re-creation n.

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verb

1. create anew (Freq. 1)

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Re-create the boom of the West on a small scale

• Derivationally related forms: ↑re-creation

• Hypernyms: ↑make, ↑create

• Hyponyms:

↑regenerate, ↑renew, ↑fictionalize, ↑fictionalise, ↑retell, ↑forge, ↑fake, ↑counterfeit, ↑represent, ↑interpret, ↑recite, ↑stage, ↑present, ↑perform, ↑act, ↑play, ↑reenact, ↑model, ↑simulate, ↑spiel

• Verb Frames:

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Somebody ——s something

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Something ——s something

2. make a replica of

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copy that drawing

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re-create a picture by Rembrandt

• Syn: ↑copy

• Derivationally related forms: ↑re-creation, ↑copyist (for: ↑copy), ↑copy (for: ↑copy), ↑copier (for: ↑copy), ↑copying (for: ↑copy)

• Hypernyms: ↑make, ↑create

• Hyponyms:

↑manifold, ↑imitate, ↑trace, ↑back up, ↑hectograph, ↑clone, ↑mimeograph, ↑mimeo, ↑roneo

• Verb Frames:

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Somebody ——s something

3. form anew in the imagination; recollect and re-form in the mind

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His mind re-creates the entire world

• Derivationally related forms: ↑re-creation

• Hypernyms: ↑create by mental act, ↑create mentally

• Hyponyms: ↑reproduce

• Verb Frames:

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Somebody ——s something

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Did he re-create his major works over a short period of time?

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\\|rē+\ transitive verb

Etymology: re- + create

: to create again

re-create the boom of the old frontier on a small scale — W.P.Webb

: form anew especially in the imagination : recollect and reform in the mind

his mind, which re-creates the cosmos out of a grain of sand — L.J.Halle

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—re-creatable, adj. —re-creative, adj. —re-creator, n.

/ree'kree ayt"/, v.t., re-created, re-creating.

to create anew.

[1580-90; RE- + CREATE]

Syn. reproduce, remake.