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Remind vs Relive - What's the difference?

remind | relive |

As verbs the difference between remind and relive

is that remind is to cause one to experience a memory (of someone or something); to bring to the notice or consideration (of a person) while relive is (obsolete|transitive) to bring back to life; to revive, resuscitate.

remind

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To cause one to experience a memory (of someone or something); to bring to the notice or consideration (of a person).
  • * 1849 , , Shirley , ch. 3:
  • I am aware, reader, and you need not remind me, that it is a dreadful thing for a parson to be warlike.
  • * 1915 , , Victory: An Island Tale , "Author's Note":
  • His eyes were green and every cat I see to this day reminds me of the exact contour of his face.

    Synonyms

    * put someone in mind of

    Derived terms

    * reminder

    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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