English

Verb

relive ‎(third-person singular simple present relives, present participle reliving, simple past and past participle relived)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To bring back to life; to revive, resuscitate. [16th-17th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.4:

     Had she not beene devoide of mortall slime, / Shee should not then have bene relyv'd againe [...].

2. (intransitive) To come back to life.
3. (transitive) To experience (something) again; to live over again. [from 18th c.]

   I relive that horrible accident every night and wake screaming, just as I screamed when it happened.

Related terms

• re-experience, reexperience

Translations

Anagrams

• levier, liever, revile