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Recreate vs Renovate - What's the difference?

recreate | renovate |

As verbs the difference between recreate and renovate

is that recreate is to give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven or recreate can be to create anew while renovate is to renew; to revamp something to make it look new again.

recreate

English

Etymology 1

From the participle stem of Latin recreare'' ‘restore’, from ''re-'' ‘re-’ + ''creare ‘create’.

Verb

(recreat)
  • To give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven.
  • * Dryden
    • 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.
  • * Dr H. More
    • These ripe fruits recreate the nostrils with their aromatic scent.
  • (reflexive) To enjoy or entertain oneself.
  • *, II.ii.3:
    • 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.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • St. John, who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge
  • To take recreation.

    • Etymology 2

    From re-'' + ''create .

    Verb

    (recreat)
  • To create anew.

    • renovate

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To renew; to revamp something to make it look new again.
    • This house is shabby, it needs renovating.
  • To restore to freshness or vigor.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * renovation