say it: REH-kree-ayt
recreate is a verb meaning "give new life or energy to". It carries 4 recorded senses.
engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion
“On weekends I play”
“The students all recreate alike”
give encouragement to
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for recreate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.