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Relive

Definition: Relive

Relive

Verb

1. Experience again, often in the imagination; "He relived the horrors of war".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "relive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)

 

Synonym: Relive

Synonym: live over (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Relive

English words defined with "relive": amobarbitalcodefendant, codeine. (references)

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Modern Usage: Relive

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Oh bravo! Yes, jump into the old jalopy and come down and stay in the country, and we can relive the old times. (Blackadder Goes Forth; writing credit: Richard Curtis; Ben Elton)

Lyrics

I'd relive the days you were mine ("Incomplete"; performing artist: Sisqo)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Relive

DomainTitle

Books

  • Encounters with the past : how man can experience and relive history (reference)

  • Fodor's the Old West: Relive America's Frontier Days---Explore Ghost Towns, Pioneer Trails, Spanishmissions, and More (reference)

  • Keeping the Light in Your Eyes: A Guide to Helping Teachers Discover, Remember, Relive, and Rediscover the Joy of Teaching (reference)

  • That reminds me-- : Canada's authors relive their most embarrassing moments (reference)

  • We Interrupt This Broadcast: Relive the Events That Stopped Our Lives...from the Hindenburg to the Death of Princess Diana (book with 2 audio CDs) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Frank Sinatra: Relive the Magic - Unauthorized (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Relive

SpeakerPhrase(s)

John McCain

Yeah, but most of my life, I relive with enjoyment. And when you relive it, as you know, you learn from it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Relive

"Relive" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 79.22% of the time. "Relive" is used about 77 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)79.22%6143,149
Lexical Verb (base form)19.48%1590,616
Noun (singular)1.3%1339,140
                    Total100.00%77N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Relive

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

relive

103

relive international

14

relive stress

9

relive product

3

relive supplement

2

frank sinatra relive the magic

2

relive vitamin

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Relive

Language Translations for "relive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

оживявам (enliven, exhilarate, jazz, liven, quicken, smarten up, touch up, vitalize, vivify, warm, warm up, zip), преживявам отново. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

再"验 (reliving). (various references)

   

German

  

noch einmal erleben. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ξαναζώ (live again), ζω πάλι. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

újra él (to relive), újra átél (to relive). (various references)

   

Italian

  

rivivere (live again, revive). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eliveray

   

Portuguese

  

reviver (freshen, revive, revivify, wake). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

retrãi (experience, revive). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

снова переживать. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ponovo doživeti. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

volver a vivir, vivir de nuevo. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

відродитися (come alive again), знову пережити. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Relive

Derivations

Words beginning with "relive": relived, relives. (additional references)

Words containing "relive": prelives. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Relive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: erive, raiva, realive, recive, redive, reinve, reiv, reive, Relaview, releave, releefe, relef, releive, relever, relie, reliev, relif, reliven, relize, relliv, relude, repleve, rerivet, reslave, rexive, Rizivi, rolive, Ryleev, selive. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Relive"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "relive" (pronounced rēli"v)
3-l i" voutlive.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Relive

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: eviler, levier, liever, revile, veiler.

Words within the letters "e-e-i-l-r-v"

-1 letter: elver, ervil, lever, lieve, liver, livre, reive, revel, viler.

-2 letters: ever, evil, leer, lier, lire, live, reel, riel, rile, rive, veer, veil, vier, vile, virl.

-3 letters: eel, ere, eve, ire, lee, lei, lev, lie, ree, rei, rev, vee, vie.

-4 letters: el, er, li, re.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-i-l-r-v"
 

+1 letter: deliver, eviller, leavier, leviers, livener, overlie, relieve, relievo, relived, relives, reviled, reviler, reviles, servile, vealier, veilers, veliger, verbile, vermeil.

 

+2 letters: bedrivel, believer, delivers, delivery, desilver, driveled, driveler, evildoer, levering, levirate, livelier, liveners, liveried, liveries, lovelier, overidle, overlies, overlive, prelives, relative, relieved, reliever, relieves, relievos, replevin, resilver, reveille, reveling, reviewal, revilers, shelvier, silvered, silverer, slivered, sliverer, sniveler, velarize, veligers, verbiles, vermeils, vernicle, versicle, voleries.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Relive


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 6C 69 76 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100101 01101100 01101001 01110110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#108 &#105 &#118 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 006C 0069 0076 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

527178758871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Spoken
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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