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Meaning of recreate in English

recreate
verb [ T ]
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/ˌriː.kriˈeɪt/ us
/ˌriː.kriˈeɪt/
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to make something exist or happen again:
They plan to recreate a typical English village in Japan.
Their work involves restoring and recreating wildlife habitats all across the country.
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recreate
verb [ I ]
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/ˈrek.ri.eɪt/ us
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to enjoy yourself doing activities when you are not working:
For people who recreate in the outdoors, the environment is an important issue.
Never swim or recreate in areas where you see sick-looking fish.
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(Definition of recreate from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of recreate

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Ritual communication produces what it is assumed to portray, recreating the world by symbolic action, reinscribing the communication's participants within a world sustained by consensus.
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Thus, artists recreate technology according to their artistic vision.
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To make this response may require recreating expectations at answer retrieval time and determining what in the text violated them.
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Such problems supported the conclusion that past and present kinship groups, recreated through the systematic application of kinship rules, were more metaphorical than substantive.
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One way to perfect that person is to recreate him or her in some later universes in the series.
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This iconicity is instrumental in sustaining and recreating the original template.
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A dynamic of this simulation recreates what is known from behaviours of popular models and also many other 'patterns' known from real paleobiology.
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If cosmetics cause the decline of separate spheres, then, miraculously, cosmetics will also recreate these spheres.
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Sometimes children ask for a certain song that has connections with other experiences, which appears to recreate a positive feeling of something experienced before.
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Eliade does not attempt to recreate the believer's experience in his own consciousness.
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Now we know that recreate reconstructs the entire matrix, we just need to pick a particular row.
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We may have to behave like classicists, recreating a society from a pottery-shard.
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Another approach is to achieve authenticity by recreating as much context as possible.
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When potential correlated variance among the four social discourse subscales was controlled, only the ability to recreate sentences and comprehend figurative language discriminated the groups.
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We define a one-dimensional rotation number and recreate the theory of the homotopic case to the identity case.
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in Chinese (Traditional)
使再現, 再創造…
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使再现, 再创造…
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recrear, reproducir…
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recrear, recriar…
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पुनर्निर्माण…
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yeniden canlandırmak, yaratmak, canlandırmak…
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recréer…
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再現（さいげん）する…
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herscheppen…
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ஏதாவது ஒன்றாக இருத்தல் அல்லது மீண்டும் நிகழச் செய்தல்…
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पुनर्निर्माण, पुनर्स्थापन, पुनः अस्तित्व में लाना या घटित करना…
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પુન:સર્જન કરવું, નવેસરથી નિર્માણ કરવું…
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genskabe…
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skapa på nytt, omskapa…
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membuat semula…
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wieder erschaffen…
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gjenskape…
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تازہ دم ہونا, تجدید نو کرنا, نئی روح پھونکنا…
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відтворювати…
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దేనినైనా ఉనికిలో ఉంచు, లేదా మళ్లీ జరిగేలా చేయు…
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পুনরায় তৈরি করা…
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vytvořit obraz…
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menciptakan kembali…
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แสดงอย่างสมจริง…
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tái tạo…
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odtwarzać, odtworzyć…
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