recreate
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
verb
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Etymology
Origin of recreate
1425–75; late Middle English recreaten < Latin recreātus (past participle of recreāre to create again, revive), equivalent to re- re- + creātus; see create
Explanation
To recreate means to give new life to something, to redo, or remake it. Say you become a billionaire and you grow tired of your mansion, try recreating your childhood home on your estate, so you can retire modestly. To recreate literally means to create over. If the mural you painted on the outside of your home was damaged in a flood, you might want to recreate it with waterproof paint. Recreate can also mean reimagine. If you become the principal of your old high school, you could throw out the old subjects and recreate high school education as everlasting game day. Recreate can also mean to play — it gives us the word recreation.
Example Sentences
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Campbell approached ElevenLabs, a company that specialises in developing natural-sounding speech, to recreate her voice, the firm's Gabi Leibowitz told AFP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
And in 2025, actor union Sag-Aftra filed a complaint over the use of AI to recreate the voice of Star Wars villain Darth Vader in Fortnite.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Gutting the Etch A Sketch helped Dorfman better understand the intricacies of the tablet so he could recreate it in miniature form.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
By bringing these systems together, the scientists were able to recreate events that occur before the severe vascular abnormalities seen in postmortem human brain tissue.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
I recreate the same two-toned hair color with a deep scarlet and ash blond.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
Her dance, as captured in the photo, would also later go on to be recreated in a painting by artist Claudette Johnson, external, which will also appear in the Wolverhampton exhibition.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
The actor died in 2016, but his voice has been recreated using AI, which has received some criticism, despite producers obtaining the consent of his estate and approval of his widow Karen B Wilder.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
To test that idea, Airapetian's team recreated conditions thought to resemble the atmosphere of early Earth inside a sealed chamber.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 2, 2026
In “102 Minutes,” it’s recreated, as is much of the show’s ornamentation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
When the radio was on, music has stimulated memory of times and places, complete with characters and stage sets, memories so exact that every word of dialogue is recreated.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
By painstakingly recreating the faces of children who had been lost, William Richardson gave something precious back to a community living with unimaginable grief.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Perhaps the biggest unsolved problem is recreating the dexterity of human hands with high-precision sensors and motors, a shortfall that was on full display when the robot loaded my dishwasher.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
At CERN's Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, physicists are recreating quark-gluon plasma to investigate the ingredients that filled the young universe.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
Forecasters advise those working or recreating outdoors as well as those without air conditioning to follow the forecast this week, stay hydrated, and seek cooling centers when possible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Finally, she tried her own drawings freehand, looking closely at the fragrant blooms, recreating their soft petals with washes of watercolor.
From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
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