Relived

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To experience or feel something again as if it were happening now, typically in one's mind or memories
2. To recall or re-experience an event from the past, bringing its emotions or details back into present awareness
3. To mentally revisit or undergo again a past occurrence, often with vividness or emotional impact

Etymology: "Relived" is the past tense and past participle of "relive," a verb that means to experience something again, usually in the mind. It is a straightforward formation: the prefix "re-" meaning "again," attached to "live." The verb "live" traces back to Old English "lifian," and the prefix "re-" comes to English through Old French from Latin, where it carried the same sense of repetition. The verb itself was built by joining these two familiar parts, so the word's history is simply the history of its components. Its meaning has stayed close to the literal sense of "living again," with the emphasis falling on memory and imagination rather than on repeating an actual physical event.

Synonyms: reexperienced, reenacted, recalled, revisited, reimagined