different between relive vs recollect

English

Etymology

From re- +? live.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i??l?v/

Verb

relive (third-person singular simple present relives, present participle reliving, simple past and past participle relived)

1. (transitive) To experience (something) again; to live over again. [from 18th c.]

   I relive that horrible accident every night and wake screaming.

2. (obsolete, transitive) To bring back to life; to revive, resuscitate. [16th-17th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.4:

     Had she not beene devoide of mortall slime, / Shee should not then have bene relyv'd againe [...].

3. (intransitive) To come back to life.

Related terms

• re-experience, reexperience

Translations

Anagrams

• eviler, levier, liever, revile, veiler

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Medieval Latin recollectus (“remembered, composed”), from Latin recolligo (“gather again, recover”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: r?-k?-l?kt?, IPA^(key): /??k??l?kt/
• (US) enPR: r?-k?-l?kt?, IPA^(key): /??k??l?kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt

Verb

recollect (third-person singular simple present recollects, present participle recollecting, simple past and past participle recollected)

1. To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.

Related terms

• collect
• recollection

Translations

Etymology 2

re- +? collect

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: r?-k?-l?kt?, IPA^(key): /?i?k??l?kt/
• (US) enPR: r?-k?-l?kt?, IPA^(key): /?i?k??l?kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt

Verb

recollect (third-person singular simple present recollects, present participle recollecting, simple past and past participle recollected)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To collect (things) together again.
2. To compose oneself.

   • The Tyrian queen […] Admir'd his fortunes, more admir'd the man; then re-collected stood.

   • 1847, Newton Mallory Curtis, The Patrol of the Mountain (page 52)

     The Major suddenly recollected himself, and withdrew his hand, and at the same time, threw himself into a chair.

Anagrams

• collecter