MEANING
Make something again, often to reproduce an earlier appearance or experience.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- recreate a scene
- recreate conditions
On the page
The experiment recreated the pressure conditions inside the vessel.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- recreate
- Past tense
- recreated
- Past participle
- recreated
- Present participle
- recreating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- recreate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are recreating
- Present perfect
- have/has recreated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been recreating
- Past
- recreated
- Past continuous
- was/were recreating
- Past perfect
- had recreated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been recreating
- Future
- will recreate
- Future continuous
- will be recreating
- Future perfect
- will have recreated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been recreating
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: recreate; recreates; recreated; recreated; recreating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, explanation, evaluation. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: recreates.
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