RELIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does relive mean? 

• RELIVE (verb)
  The verb RELIVE has 1 sense:

1. experience again, often in the imagination

  Familiarity information: RELIVE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RELIVE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they relive    ... he / she / it relives   
Past simple: relived   
Past participle: relived   
-ing form: reliving   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Experience again, often in the imagination

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

live over; relive

Context example:

He relived the horrors of war

Hypernyms (to "relive" is one way to...):

experience; know; live (have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

reliving (a recurrence of a prior experience)

 Context examples 

He heard nothing. He did not think. So absolutely had he relived life that he had fainted just as he fainted years before on the Eighth Street Bridge.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She drew them out, turned them over, and relived that pleasant winter at kind Mrs. Kirke's.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Father and Mother sat together, quietly reliving the first chapter of the romance which for them began some twenty years ago.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)