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reliving

[ree-liv] Origin

re·live

[ree-liv] verb, -lived, -liv·ing.
verb (used with object)
1.
to experience again, as an emotion.
2.
to live (one's life) again.
verb (used without object)
3.
to live again.

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Reliving is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

Origin:
1540–50; re- + live1

re·liv·a·ble, adjective
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Word Origin & History

relive
1540s, "to come to life again" (also "to restore to life again"), from re- "back, again" + live (v.). Meaning "to experience over again" is attested from c.1711.
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