relive

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ live.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹiːˈlɪv/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪv

Verb

relive (third-person singular simple present relives, present participle reliving, simple past and past participle relived)

1. (transitive) To experience (something) again; to live over again. [from 18th c.]

   I relive that horrible accident every night and wake screaming.

   Replays in video games allow you to relive your greatest moments.

2. (obsolete, transitive) To bring back to life; to revive, resuscitate. [16th–17th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Had she not beene devoide of mortall slime, / Shee should not then have bene relyv'd againe [...].

3. (intransitive) To come back to life.

Derived terms

• relivable
• reliver

Related terms

• re-experience, reexperience

Translations

to come back to life

Bulgarian: оживявам (bg) (oživjavam) Finnish: virota (fi) French: revivre (fr) Portuguese: reviver (pt) Russian: оживать (ru) impf (oživatʹ) Spanish: revivir (es) Ukrainian: ожива́ти impf (ožyváty), відро́джуватися impf (vidródžuvatysja), відроди́тися pf (vidrodýtysja)

to experience again

Arabic: أَحْيَا (ʔaḥyā) Egyptian Arabic: أحيا (ʔaḥyā) Bulgarian: преживявам отново (preživjavam otnovo) Finnish: elää uudelleen, kokea uudelleen, käydä läpi uudelleen Italian: rivivere (it) Polish: przeżyć na nowo Portuguese: reviver (pt) Romanian: retrăi (ro) Russian: переживать (ru) impf (pereživatʹ) Spanish: revivir (es) Swedish: återuppleva (sv) Ukrainian: пережива́ти impf (perežyváty), пережи́ти (uk) pf (perežýty)

Anagrams

• eviler, levier, liever, revile, veiler