re-create

A verb used to indicate the act of creating something again or reproducing something that previously existed.

• 🇫🇷Verbe utilisé pour désigner l'action de créer à nouveau quelque chose ou de reproduire ce qui existait auparavant.

1. Create anew B2 formal

   To bring something into existence again, often after it has been destroyed or lost.

   • The artist sought to re-create the masterpiece from memory.
   • After the fire, they worked to re-create the historic building.
   • The team tried to re-create the experiment under controlled conditions.

   🇫🇷recréer

   Synonymes: rebuildreconstructrefashionregeneratereincarnateremakerenewreproducerestorerevive

   Antonymes: abolishannihilatedemolishdestroy

2. Make a replica of B2 formal

   To produce an exact copy or reproduction of something.

   • The museum hired experts to re-create the ancient pottery.
   • They used 3D printing to re-create the fossil.
   • The film crew re-created a medieval village for the movie.

   🇫🇷reproduire à l'identique

   Synonymes: clonecopyduplicatereplicatereproduce

3. Reimagine or recollect C1 formal

   To form something again in the imagination; to recollect and reconstruct a memory or idea.

   • In his memoir, he tried to re-create the feelings of his childhood.
   • The author re-created the atmosphere of 1920s Paris in her novel.
   • She closed her eyes and re-created the scene in her mind.

   🇫🇷re-créer (dans l'esprit)

   Synonymes: conjure upevokerecallrecollectreconstruct

• re-created past participle
• re-created past simple
• re-creating present participle
• re-creates third person singular