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Relive vs Revisit - What's the difference?

relive | revisit |

As verbs the difference between relive and revisit

is that relive is to bring back to life; to revive, resuscitate while revisit is to visit again.

As a noun revisit is

an act of revisiting.

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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    revisit

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to visit again
  • to reconsider or re-experience something

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • an act of revisiting
  • a second visit
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