Relive

Part of speech: verb

Pronunciation: /ɹiːˈlɪv/

Definitions

1. To experience something again in the mind or emotions, as if it were happening once more
2. To mentally recall or emotionally re-experience a past event or moment
3. To revisit a memory or feeling vividly, making it seem like it is occurring again

Etymology: "Relive" is about as transparent as English compounds get: it is the prefix "re-", meaning again, attached to "live," which came into English from Old English "lifian" and ultimately shares roots with "life." The combination produces the sense of living something a second time, whether in memory or in feeling. The prefix has a longer pedigree than the verb. It descends from Proto-Italic and reached English through Latin "re-", which spread into Old French as "re-" and from there into Middle English. English speakers thus already had a ready-made tool for "again" by the time they attached it to "live," and it is a good example of how an English verb can be built from a borrowed prefix and a native base.

Synonyms: reexperience, revisit, recall, replay, reenact

Antonyms: forget, overlook, ignore, disregard, neglect