relive
- to experience again, as an emotion.
- to live (one's life) again.
- to live again.
Origin of relive
Related Words for reliving
remembrance, recollection, anecdote, hallucination, memory, commemorate, get, recall, recognize, remind, learn, relive, portray, imitate, clone, recreate, reflect, emulate, duplicate, repeatExamples from the Web for reliving
Contemporary Examples of reliving
Reached by phone, he did not appear interested in reliving the ordeal.
Before he finishes, he will have broken down in tears, recounting and reliving the nightmare that has been his life.
Each one, Kerry says, is like reliving the day he disappeared.
I was reliving what had just happened, trying to find an explanation for what I was going through.
If you're interested in reliving the local housing market's rise and fall, I highly recommend this discussion forum.
Historical Examples of reliving
To go about Boston with my young wife was like reliving one by one my student days.
A Daughter of the Middle BorderHamlin Garland
Five seconds after she went to sleep, Sue was reliving one of her yesterdays.
The Duck-footed HoundJames Arthur Kjelgaard
The youth was reliving it, Edith saw, and perhaps painfully.
The Trial of Callista BlakeEdgar Pangborn
Dulaq was reliving the part of the duel that had caused the shock.
The Dueling MachineBenjamin William Bova
Her thoughts were in the past, and she was reliving the years that were gone.
Lancashire Idylls (1898)Marshall Mather
relive
- (tr) to experience (a sensation, event, etc) again, esp in the imagination