different between recreate vs overmake
recreate
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)
- (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.
- 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy
- (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
- (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.
- 2004, Forbes (volume 173, issues 4-9, page 156)
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)
- To create anew.
Translations
Latin
Verb
recre?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of recre?
recreate From the web:
- what creates wind
- what created the universe
- what creates a magnetic field
- what created the big bang
- what created the grand canyon
- what creates lightning
- what creates gravity
- what creates earth's magnetic field
overmake
English
Etymology
From over- +? make.
Verb
overmake (third-person singular simple present overmakes, present participle overmaking, simple past and past participle overmade)
- (transitive) To make over or anew; recreate; remake.
- (transitive) To make a greater quantity than needed; overproduce; overdo.
Noun
overmake (plural overmakes)
- That which is overmade; make-over.
- An oversupply; surplus.
Anagrams
- make over, make-over, makeover
Dutch
Verb
overmake
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of overmaken (when using a subclause)
Anagrams
- make over
overmake From the web:
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