recreate

verb

1. (transitive)To give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven.

   “Painters, when they work on white grounds, place before them colours mixed with blue and green, to recreate their eyes, white wearying […] the sight more than any.”

   “These ripe fruit[…] recreate the nostrils with their aromatick scent.”

   “Odoraments to smell to, of rose-water, violet flowers, balm, rose-cakes, vinegar, etc., do much recreate the brains and spirits […]”

2. (reflexive)To enjoy or entertain oneself.

   “In Italy, though they bide in cities in winter, which is more gentlemanlike, all the summer they come abroad to their country-houses, to recreate themselves.”

   “St. John, who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge”

3. (intransitive)To take recreation.

   “Phonecams are proliferating like mad, their tiny eyes fuzzily probing so many corners of public and private life that they have begun to alter how people communicate and recreate.”

4. (alt-of, alternative, proscribed, sometimes)Alternative form of re-create.