re-create (redirected from re-creating)

re-cre·ate  (rkr-t)

tr.v. re-cre·at·ed, re-cre·at·ing, re-cre·ates

To create anew.

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re-create

Verb

[-creating, -created] to make happen or exist again

re-creation n

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	re-create - create anew; "Re-create the boom of the West on a small scale" regenerate - replace (tissue or a body part) through the formation of new tissue; "The snake regenerated its tail" create, make - make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor" regenerate, renew - reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new; "We renewed our friendship after a hiatus of twenty years"; "They renewed their membership" fictionalise, fictionalize, retell - make into fiction; "The writer fictionalized the lives of his parents in his latest novel" counterfeit, fake, forge - make a copy of with the intent to deceive; "he faked the signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; "She forged a Green Card" interpret, represent - create an image or likeness of; "The painter represented his wife as a young girl" retell, recite - render verbally, "recite a poem"; "retell a story" stage, present, represent - perform (a play), especially on a stage; "we are going to stage `Othello'" perform - give a performance (of something); "Horowitz is performing at Carnegie Hall tonight"; "We performed a popular Gilbert and Sullivan opera" act, play, represent - play a role or part; "Gielgud played Hamlet"; "She wants to act Lady Macbeth, but she is too young for the role"; "She played the servant to her husband's master" reenact - enact or perform again; "They reenacted the battle of Princeton" simulate, model - create a representation or model of; "The pilots are trained in conditions simulating high-altitude flights" spiel, play - replay (as a melody); "Play it again, Sam"; "She played the third movement very beautifully"
	2.	re-create - make a replica of; "copy that drawing"; "re-create a picture by Rembrandt" copy manifold - make multiple copies of; "multiply a letter" create, make - make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor" imitate - make a reproduction or copy of trace - copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of; "trace a design"; "trace a pattern" back up - make a copy of (a computer file) especially for storage in another place as a security copy; "You'd better back up these files!" hectograph - copy on a duplicator; "hectograph the hand-outs" clone - make multiple identical copies of; "people can clone a sheep nowadays" mimeo, mimeograph - print copies from (a prepared stencil) using a mimeograph; "She mimeographed the syllabus" roneo - make copies on a Roneograph
	3.	re-create - form anew in the imagination; recollect and re-form in the mind; "His mind re-creates the entire world" create by mental act, create mentally - create mentally and abstractly rather than with one's hands reproduce - recreate a sound, image, idea, mood, atmosphere, etc.; "this DVD player reproduces the sound of the piano very well"; "He reproduced the feeling of sadness in the portrait"

Translations

re-create [riːkrɪˈeɪt] vt (atmosphere, situation) → wiederherstellen