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Relive vs Rekindle - What's the difference?

relive | rekindle |

As verbs the difference between relive and rekindle

is that relive is (obsolete|transitive) to bring back to life; to revive, resuscitate while rekindle is to kindle once again.

relive

English

Verb

  • (obsolete) To bring back to life; to revive, resuscitate.
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
  • *:Had she not beene devoide of mortall slime, / Shee should not then have bene relyv'd againe [...].
  • To come back to life.
  • To experience (something) again; to live over again.
  • :I relive that horrible accident every night and wake screaming, just as I screamed when it happened.
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    rekindle

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To kindle once again.
  • To revive.
  • After being abroad for a decade, when he came back he rekindled his obsession with cricket.

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