relive

relive

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ live.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹiːˈlɪv/

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.

2. (obsolete, transitive) To bring back to life; to revive, resuscitate. [16th-17th c.]
   • 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 [...].

3. (intransitive) To come back to life.

Related terms

• re-experience, reexperience

Translations

to come back to life

Finnish: virota (fi) French: revivre (fr) Portuguese: reviver (pt)

Russian: оживать (ru) impf (oživatʹ) Spanish: revivir (es)

to experience again

Arabic: أَحْيَا‎ (ʾaḥyā) Egyptian Arabic: أحيا‎ (ʾaḥyā) 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)

Anagrams

• eviler, levier, liever, revile, veiler