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Also, every time you do it, you have to relive the thing over again.

Remembering doesn’t mean relivingAcknowledging all the negative things that 2020 brought with it—the whole lot of them—is important to move forward, but that doesn’t mean you need to relive past traumas, Aman says.

As the new skill is practiced, or the learning relived, the connections strengthen and the learning is consolidated into a memory.

Today, those clamoring as a result to reinvent capitalism with more regulation are well-warned to avoid condemning us to relive this history.

From Fortune

Sports fans thrive on video content, wanting to relive important moments again and again, or catch up on the action they missed on demand.

To whet your appetite, you can relive that glorious moment (and watch other programs from the 2014 summit) here.

A bunch of wrinkly old men trying to relive their youth and make a load of money.

(Netflix, June 13) Tarzan (1999) Relive your child with the timeless Tarzan and his feisty friend Jane.

From Bob Hope to Whoopi Goldberg and Neil Patrick Harris, relive six decades of Academy Award openers.

Relive the magic of the past 10 years of Top Model with this compilation of the best fights, freakouts, and breakdowns.

To camp in the chaparral, to explore the source of streams, and to relive the wonder of the boy kept his faculties alert and keen.

As I reflect upon it I relive many delightful excursions into the northern woods.

I relive once more that bitter night on the wharf in Glenora when (chilled by the cold wind), he first began to cough.

She was able to relive the thoughts and feelings of the authors whose books she studied and so make their experiences her own.

He liked to relive in dream fashion the years of early endeavour––of his married life with Hannah.

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What is another word for relive?

To relive something means to experience it again in some way—to reexperience it.

Sometimes, relive means to vividly recall the experience in your mind, as if you’re living through it again.

In this way, to relive is really to remember. Often, saying that you relived an event really means that a memory of it triggered the same emotions you felt during the original experience.

Sometimes, we relive experiences in our dreams, and sometimes in flashbacks. When this happens, the mind recreates the experience from our memories.

In movies like Groundhog Day, characters literally relive the same day over and over again—they repeat it again and again until Andie MacDowell falls in love with them.

How is relive different from reminisce?

The meanings of relive and reminisce can overlap. When you reminisce about past events, it’s often an intentional way of trying to relive them.

Reminiscing is commonly done through talking about those events with other people who also experienced them, which can stir memories and emotions.

But there are differences. Reminisce is always used in the context of fond memories, and reminiscing is always intentional, while relive can be used in positive contexts (fond memories) or negative ones (traumatic memories), and reliving an experience in your mind sometimes happens even when you don’t want it to.

Is it relive or re-live?

Like many other words that begin with the prefix re- (meaning “again”), relive is typically spelled without a hyphen.

In some words that begin with the prefix re-, a hyphen is necessary to distinguish one word from another that would be spelled the same but has an entirely different meaning, such as resign (as in quit) and re-sign (as in sign again). This is not an issue with relive.

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On this page you'll find 97 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to relive, such as: commemorate, get, learn, look back, recall, and recognize.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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