relive

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ live.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹiːˈlɪv/

• Audio (Southern England):

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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.

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)
• Ukrainian: пережива́ти impf (perežyváty), пережи́ти (uk) pf (perežýty)

Anagrams

• eviler, levier, liever, revile, veiler