Recreated vs Repaired - What's the difference?
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(recreate)
To give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven.
* Dryden
* Dr H. More
(reflexive) To enjoy or entertain oneself.
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* Jeremy Taylor
To take recreation.
To create anew.
(repair)
The act of repairing something.
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The condition of something, in respect of need for repair.
To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.
* Milton
* Wordsworth
To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.
* Shakespeare
The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
* Clarendon
A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.
* Dryden
To transfer oneself to another place.
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*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:Go, mount the winds, and to the shades repair .
*1850 , , (Jane Eyre)
*:I heard the visitors repair to their chambers.
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*:That finished, I repaired to my room, one flight up, and, after a thorough wash, seated myself, pipe in mouth, at the little window that opened on the Rue Garde. I had nothing more exciting on hand than to wait for word from Von Lindowe. I sincerely hoped that it would not be long, for it is not my forte to sit twiddling my thumbs.
Recreated is a related term of repaired.
As verbs the difference between recreated and repaired
is that recreated is (recreate) while repaired is (repair).recreated
English
Verb
(head)recreate
English
Etymology 1
From the participle stem of Latin recreare'' ‘restore’, from ''re-'' ‘re-’ + ''creare ‘create’.Verb
(recreat)- 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.
- These ripe fruits recreate the nostrils with their aromatic scent.
- 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.
- St. John, who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge
Etymology 2
From re-'' + ''create .Verb
(recreat)repaired
English
Verb
(head)- I repaired your automobile for you.
repair
English
Etymology 1
Coined between 1300 and 1350 from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains.
Derived terms
* disrepairVerb
(en verb)- to repair a house, a road, a shoe, or a ship
- to repair a shattered fortune
- secret refreshings that repair his strength
- Do thou, as thou art wont, repair / My heart with gladness.
- to repair a loss or damage
- I'll repair the misery thou dost bear.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* repairable / reparable, repairerEtymology 2
(etyl) . Cognate to repatriate.Noun
(en noun)- our annual repair to the mountains
- The king sent a proclamation for their repair to their houses.
- There the fierce winds his tender force assail / And beat him downward to his first repair .