relive
/ɹiːˈlɪv/verb
relive is a verb meaning “To experience (something) again; to live over again” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-L-I-V-E and has 2 syllables, and it appears 1.7 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does relive mean?
verb
- 1
To experience (something) again; to live over again.
I relive that horrible accident every night and wake screaming.
- 2
obsoleteTo bring back to life; to revive, resuscitate.
- 3
To come back to life.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce relive?
- /ɹiːˈlɪv/
Relive has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-relive.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of relive
- relives present, singular, he/she/it
- reliving participle, present
- relived participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is relive?
Relive appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,209th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Relive in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense to come back to life:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does relive come from?
From re- + live.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).