1. (verb)re-create create anew
"Re-create the boom of the West on a small scale"
2. (verb)copy, re-create make a replica of
"copy that drawing"; "re-create a picture by Rembrandt"
3. (verb)re-create form anew in the imagination; recollect and re-form in the mind "His mind re-creates the entire world"
4. (verb)animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify give new life or energy to
"A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"
5. (verb)play, recreate engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion "On weekends I play"; "The students all recreate alike"