different between recreate vs amuse

English

Etymology 1

From the participle stem of Latin recreare (“to restore”), from re- (“re-”) + creare (“to create”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k??e?t/

Verb

recreate (third-person singular simple present recreates, present participle recreating, simple past and past participle recreated)

1. (transitive) To give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven.
   • 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy

     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.

   • 1688, Henry More, Divine Dialogues

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

   • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

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

3. (intransitive) To take recreation.
   • 2004, Forbes (volume 173, issues 4-9, page 156)

     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.

Synonyms

• (refresh): encourage, enliven, refresh
• (amuse): amuse, delight, enjoy

Related terms

• recreation

Translations

Etymology 2

re- +? create

Alternative forms

• re-create

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?k???e?t/

Verb

recreate (third-person singular simple present recreates, present participle recreating, simple past and past participle recreated)

1. To create anew.

Translations

Latin

Verb

recre?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of recre?

English

Etymology

From Late Middle English *amusen (“to mutter, be astonished, gaze meditatively on”), from Old French amuser (“to stupefy, waste time, be lost in thought”), from a- + muser (“to stare stupidly at, gape, wander, waste time, loiter, think carefully about, attend to”), of uncertain and obscure origin. Cognate with Occitan musa (“idle waiting”), Italian musare (“to gape idly about”). Possibly from Old French *mus (“snout”) from Vulgar Latin *m?sa (“snout”)  — compare Medieval Latin m?sum (“muzzle, snout”) –, from Proto-Germanic *m?- (“muzzle, snout”), from Proto-Indo-European *m?- (“lips, muzzle”). Compare North Frisian müs, mös (“mouth”), German Maul (“muzzle, snout”).

Alternative etymology connects muser and musa with Frankish *muoza (“careful attention, leisure, idleness”), from Proto-Germanic *m?t? (“leave, permission”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to acquire, possess, control”).This would make it a cognate of Dutch musen (“to leisure”), Old High German *muoza (“careful attention, leisure, idleness”) and muoz?n (“to be idle, have leisure or opportunity”), German Muße (“leisure”). More at empty.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??mju?z/
• Rhymes: -u?z

Verb

amuse (third-person singular simple present amuses, present participle amusing, simple past and past participle amused)

1. (transitive) To entertain or occupy (someone or something) in a pleasant manner; to stir (an individual) with pleasing emotions.
   • 1786, William Gilpin, Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1772, on several parts of England; particularly the mountains, and lakes of Cumberland, and Westmoreland

     A group of children amusing themselves with pushing stones from the top [of the cliff], and watching as they plunged into the lake.

2. To cause laughter or amusement; to be funny.

3. (transitive, archaic) To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude.
4. (transitive, archaic) To occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder.
   • 1600, Philemon Holland, The Romane Historie

     the enemies were amused on the fires that our men made

   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, Church History of England

     Being amused with grief, fear, and fright, he could not find the house.

Synonyms

• entertain, gratify, please, divert, beguile, exhilarate

Derived terms

• amusement

Translations

References

• amuse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• musea

Dutch

Etymology

Clipping of amuse-bouche or amuse-gueule.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a??my?.z?/, /?a??my.z?/
• Hyphenation: amu?se

Noun

amuse m (plural amuses)

1. appetiser, hors d'oeuvre

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.myz/
• Homophones: amuses, amusent

Verb

amuse

1. first-person singular present indicative of amuser
2. third-person singular present indicative of amuser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of amuser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of amuser
5. second-person singular imperative of amuser