Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To create anew.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To create or form anew.
WordNet 3.0
- v. form anew in the imagination; recollect and re-form in the mind
- v. make a replica of
- v. create anew
Examples
“These “intentional communities” were typically established in remote locations so as to re-create agrarian, preindustrial society.”
“With little access to American-made products, the stiliagi were forced to re-create them on their own.”
“I would re-create that book, as a pie, and take my own first step into tradition.”
“Many are looking for comfort in the ordinary, as the community struggles to re-create a semblance of normalcy.”
The Wall Street Journal: A Day to Bid Farewell to Tsunami Dead
“If you were to try to re-create that gun today it would cost at least three times what Safari Outfitters wanted for it.”
“For example, Mike and I loved to re-create dance steps that we watched from the golden age of Hollywood—moves perfected by Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.”
“How did you re-create the full experience of those 18 days?”
The Wall Street Journal: The Egyptian Revolution Will be Televised
“Lions coach and former Tennessee Titans defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz looks to re-create the disruptive line he coached from 2001 to 2008 starring Vanden Bosch and Albert Haynesworth.”
“If the research is being used simply to "re-create" history as an end in itself, then that sort of fiction is indeed what I identified in the post as "an effort to use the form for a purpose other than" a literary one.”
“With the help of his large "Settlement" vis-a-vis the accident, the narrator goes about trying to re-create this scene.”
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If I've seen it, heard it, or marvelled at it, I'll stick it here.
cruft, ermine, redundant, shakespearean, camino, marvelous, stupendous, chagrin, shaven, sleek, smug, stillness and 325 more...
Tweets
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jrome "One thing we've always tried to avoid in The White Stripes is all those words that I can't stand that start with 'R,' such as retro, and relic, and reissue, and re-create, all that stuff," White says. "All I know is I just want my stuff to sound as soulful as I can." - Jack White on NPR, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17332103 Dec 19, 2007