re-create Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb create anew
    • Re-create the boom of the West on a small scale
  2. verb make a replica of
    copy.
    • copy that drawing
    • re-create a picture by Rembrandt
  3. verb form anew in the imagination; recollect and re-form in the mind
    • His mind re-creates the entire world

WordNet

Re`-cre*ate" transitive verb
Etymology
Pref. re- + create.
Definitions
  1. To create or form anew.
    On opening the campaign of 1776, instead of reënforcing, it was necessary to re-create, the army. Marshall.

Webster 1913