Antonyms for re-live


Grammar : Verb
Spell : ree-liv
Phonetic Transcription : riˈlɪv


Definition of re-live

Origin :
  • 1540s, "to come to life again" (also "to restore to life again"), from re- "back, again" + live (v.). Meaning "to experience over again" is attested from c.1711. Related: Relived; reliving.
  • As in remember : verb keep in mind; summon into mind
  • As in reproduce : verb make more copies of
Example sentences :
  • But if we can renew and re-live middle-age, that will be better still.
  • Extract from : « The Goat-gland Transplantation » by Sydney B. Flower
  • But later he was to re-live that day in all its homely details.
  • Extract from : « The Marne » by Edith Wharton
  • We can re-live in imagination an emotion already experienced.
  • Extract from : « Memoirs of My Dead Life » by George Moore
  • I can not re-live my life; and even if I could, perhaps I might do the same again.
  • Extract from : « Anne » by Constance Fenimore Woolson
  • He had not yet passed beyond that phase he had dreaded to re-live.
  • Extract from : « The Tower of Oblivion » by Oliver Onions
  • There were things he did not wish to re-do, episodes he did not wish to re-live.
  • Extract from : « The Tower of Oblivion » by Oliver Onions
  • Fairfax exclaimed fiercely, "Aunt Caroline, I don't like to re-live the past!"
  • Extract from : « Fairfax and His Pride » by Marie Van Vorst
  • Everything seems to originate in the same context: to know means to re-live the experience.
  • Extract from : « The Civilization of Illiteracy » by Mihai Nadin
  • He knew that simply she forced herself to re-live this most painful part of her own life and to re-live it articulately.
  • Extract from : « The Branding Iron » by Katharine Newlin Burt
  • All the time as I tread this strange land I re-live those scenes, and you are with me.
  • Extract from : « The Ship in the Desert » by Joaquin Miller

Synonyms for re-live

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