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  • verb Present participle of relive.

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  • noun a recurrence of a prior experience

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Examples

  • We stress the term reliving, not just remembering.

    unknown title 2009

  • Initially, Hiroshi gets lost in reliving his youth, enjoying the benefits an additional 34 years of experience give him.

    A Distant Neighborhood Book 2 » Manga Worth Reading 2009

  • There is no point in reliving painful experiences and thinking about lost loves.

    2009 August 2009

  • We watched the stars and listened to the BBC at night, and relished in reliving our Peace Corps days with some lukewarm bucket baths ....

    Tukombo to Mpamila: bus & pickups / 8 hrs jen 2008

  • We watched the stars and listened to the BBC at night, and relished in reliving our Peace Corps days with some lukewarm bucket baths ....

    Archive 2008-09-01 jen 2008

  • I have absolutely no interest in reliving the brief, tiring moments I spent watching the lives of these four people as they tear themselves and each other to shreds.

    J.D.’s Top 10 Great Movies No One Should Have to Watch More Than Once » Scene-Stealers 2008

  • You as a crip bring it up and, if what they are reliving is the preverbal period, they don't even know how to put it into language.

    LIFE IN A WHEELCHAIR Maggie Jochild 2007

  • That said, after having gone through the toddler/preschool years with my kids, I’m just not interested in reliving it when I go out.

    The Illuminated Crowd | Her Bad Mother 2008

  • It wasn't as though he didn't want them there; but the thought of explaining it all over again, the idea of reliving it one more time, was more than he could stand.

    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Rowling, J. K. 2000

  • "The smell was terrible," Ms. Nuñez said in Spanish, reliving the horror she felt that day.

    NYT > Home Page By MATHEW R. WARREN 2011

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