different between recreate vs exhilarate

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 Latin exhilar?re (“to delight, to gladden, to make merry”), from ex- (“out, away”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h?e??s (“out”)) + hilar?re, present infinitive of hilar? (“to cheer, to gladden”), from hilaris (“cheerful, light-hearted, lively”) (from Ancient Greek ?????? (hilarós, “cheerful, merry”), from ????? (hílaos, “gracious, kind, propitious”), from Proto-Indo-European *s?lh?- (“comfort, mercy”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???z?l??e?t/, /??-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???z?l???e?t/, /??-/
• (General American)
• Hyphenation: ex?hil?a?rate

Verb

exhilarate (third-person singular simple present exhilarates, present participle exhilarating, simple past and past participle exhilarated)

1. (transitive) To cheer, to cheer up, to gladden, to make happy.
2. (transitive) To excite, to thrill.
   • 1932, Dorothy L Sayers, Have his Carcase, Chapter 12.

     Harriet became suddenly conscious that every woman in the room was gazing furtively or with frank interest at Wimsey and herself, and the knowledge exhilarated her.

Synonyms

• (to cheer): enliven, stimulate

Derived terms

• exhilarating
• exhilarant
• exhilaratingly
• exhilaration
• exhilarator
• exhilaratory

Related terms

• hilarious
• hilariously
• hilariousness
• hilarity
• Hilary

Translations

Further reading

• exhilarate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• exhilarate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Latin

Verb

exhilar?te

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