different between renew vs recreate

English

Etymology

From Middle English renewen, an alteration (possibly on analogy with Latin renov?re) of earlier anewen (“to renew”), from Old English ?en?wian (“to restore; renovate; renew”), equivalent to re- +? new. Cognate with Old High German giniuw?n (“to renew”), Middle High German geniuwen (“to renew”), Old Norse nýja (“to renew”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???nju?/
• Rhymes: -u?
• Hyphenation: re?new

Verb

renew (third-person singular simple present renews, present participle renewing, simple past and past participle renewed)

1. (transitive) To make (something) new again; to restore to freshness or original condition. [from 14^thc.]
   • c.1596-98, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act 5, scene i:

     In such a night / Medea gather’d the enchanted herbs / That did renew old AEson.

2. (transitive) To replace (something which has broken etc.); to replenish (something which has been exhausted), to keep up a required supply of. [from 14^thc.]
3. (theology) To make new spiritually; to regenerate. [from 14th c.]
   • 1526, William Tyndale, Bible (Tyndale), Romans 12.2:

     And fassion not youre selves lyke vnto this worlde: But be ye chaunged in youre shape by the renuynge of youre wittes that ye maye fele what thynge that good yt acceptable and perfaycte will of god is.

4. (now rare, intransitive) To become new, or as new; to revive. [15^th-18^thc.]
   • , II.2.6.ii:

     […] to such as are in fear they strike a great impression, renew many times, and recal such chimeras and terrible fictions into their minds.

   • 2010 September, Michael Allen, "St. Louis Preservation Fund", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, Vol.16, Is.9, p.74:

     Renewing neighborhoods dealing with vacant buildings badly need options other than demolition or dangerous vacant spaces.

5. (transitive) To begin again; to recommence. [from 16^thc.]
   • 1660, John Dryden, translating Virgil, (apparently from Eclogue 4), a snippet of translation used to introduce Dryden's Astræa Redux: A poem on the happy restoration and return of His Sacred Majesty Charles II

     The last great age, foretold by sacred rhymes, / Renews its finished course ; Saturnian times / Roll round again.

   • “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; […]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.

6. (rare) To repeat. [from 17^thc.]
   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost:

     The birds their notes renew, and bleating herds / Attest their joy, that hill and valley rings.

7. (transitive, intransitive) To extend a period of loan, especially a library book that is due to be returned.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:repair

Related terms

• renewal

Translations

Noun

renew (plural renews)

1. Synonym of renewal

Derived terms

• urban renew

Anagrams

• newer, weren

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?