recreate
verb (used with object)
to refresh by means of relaxation and enjoyment, as restore physically or mentally.
recreative
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a word derived from
recreate.
Example Sentences
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The most fruitful road to Joseph seems to be, as the Rev. Edington noted, one combining "good, serious Bible study and some recreative imagination."
From Time Magazine Archive
His recreative moments in his later years have been, however, more taken up with flyfishing, a sport of which he has always been fond.
From Time Magazine Archive
Large revenues and large expenditures are mutually recreative.
From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various
But I see, now, they were only recreative little sylphs, amusing themselves with whipping and spurring me on to my own good!'
From The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney
The social and recreative side of rural life must be developed.
From The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity by George Walter Fiske
