relivere‧live /ˌriːˈlɪv/ verb [transitive] 
Verb Table Examples
The girls watch the tape, eager to relive their victory against UCLA.
Verb TableVERB TABLE
relive
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | relive |
| he, she, it | relives | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | relived |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have relived |
| he, she, it | has relived | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had relived |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will relive |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have relived |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am reliving |
| he, she, it | is reliving | |
| you, we, they | are reliving | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was reliving |
| you, we, they | were reliving | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been reliving |
| he, she, it | has been reliving | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been reliving |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be reliving |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been reliving |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- I have relived that game many times and I still don't know how I missed the goal.
- In my dreams, I often relived my fears and thought I was being attacked.
- It's about a woman who is forced to relive her past when she discovers her long-lost brother.
- Over lunch, we relived our adventures in Tanzania.
- But I believe that children need to be inducted into the tradition of reliving and rethinking moments of their lives.
- But old hands like Richard Thompson and Ashley Hutchins still get together to relive old songs.
- He often relived the war years and still remembered his many comrades, especially those who did not return.
- She flashed back to her discussion with Ted Wilkinson, reliving every moment in her mind.
- This includes an audio visual show which transports visitors on a 15 minute journey on the Trent to relive floods and battles.
Longman Language Activatorto remember something very clearly► remember something well/vividly
Collocations · "Do you remember a guy called Casey?" "Sure, I remember him well."· It was a long, long time ago, but I remember it vividly.· What she remembered most vividly was the hopelessly sad expression in his eyes. remember something all too well/vividly (=remember something that you would prefer to forget) · These men remember all too well the horrors of the Korean War.
► distinctly remember to remember the details about something extremely clearly, especially when it is not something that would usually stay in someone's memory: distinctly remember something: · I distinctly remember her dress. It was blue with a red belt.distinctly remember doing something: · I distinctly remember being told that my father was away on a long business trip.distinctly remember somebody doing something: · I distinctly remember him leaving the room at about 8.00 p.m.
► be fresh in your mind if something is fresh in your mind , you remember it very clearly because it happened very recently or because it had a great effect on you: · The day war was declared is still fresh in my mind.· She wrote down the details of their conversation while they were still fresh in her mind.with something fresh in your mind: · It was going to be difficult forming a new relationship with the memory of Marian still fresh in his mind.
► I can still hear/see/feel etc to remember clearly the sight, sound, feel etc of something: · I can still see his face when I told him I wanted a divorce.· I can still hear my mother even now, singing away in the kitchen.· The next morning, on his way to the office, he could still feel the touch of her lips on his.
► I will never forget especially spoken use this to say that you will remember something for a long time because it was very shocking, very enjoyable, very frightening etc: · I'll never forget the sight of him lying there in the hospital.· "I'm going to teach you a lesson you'll never forget," said father grimly.I'll never forget the first time/the day/the night etc: · I'll never forget the first time I ate sushi.· I'll never forget the day Linda told us she was gay.I will never forget how/what/who etc: · I'll never forget how he comforted me after my son died.
► remember something as if it were yesterday to remember something that happened a long time in the past so clearly that it seems to have happened very recently, especially because it had a great effect on you: · I remember sitting at that table and listening to him speak as if it were yesterday.· She remembers her husband being shot as if it were yesterday.
► relive to clearly remember something, especially an experience from the past, by imagining that you are doing it again now: · In my dreams, I often relived my fears and thought I was being attacked.· It's about a woman who is forced to relive her past when she discovers her long-lost brother.· I have relived that game many times and I still don't know how I missed the goal.
► stay with if something such as an experience or event stays with you, you remember it for a very long time because it has such a great effect on you: · When a loved one dies, it stays with you - it doesn't just go away.stay with someone for a long time/for the rest of their life: · The memory of the incident stayed with him for a long time.· Growing up in the countryside, she developed a passion for horses that stayed with her for the rest of her life.
► stick in your mind if an experience or event etc sticks in your mind , it is very difficult to forget: · That reminds me of another incident that sticks in my mind.· One picture of a young child especially stuck in my mind.· A trivial incident, perhaps, but one that has stuck in my mind.
► be haunted by if you are haunted by something, especially something that you are worried about or afraid of, you find it extremely difficult to forget it so you are always thinking about it: · She was still haunted by what happened in Barcelona, although she had left twenty years earlier.· All his life, Whitman was haunted by a sense of loss and loneliness.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► relive a memory
Word family (=talk about past events so you remember them again)· Seeing her again was an excuse to relive old memories.
► relive the moment (=experience something again by thinking about it, talking about it etc)· In court she had to relive the moment her son was murdered.
► relive/recapture your youth (=do things you did when young, to try and experience youth again)· The band’s fans are clearly reliving their youth.· The sports car is an attempt to recapture his youth.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► experience· Altogether it was a great evening but reliving our holiday experiences did not come cheap.· I relived the experience in my mind and grinned.· It was like reliving the Dam Pool experience all over again, this time from above the water, rather than underneath it.
► memory· He sobbed as he relived the painful memory.· In the long years since that glorious meal Jack had relived it in his memory a thousand times.· If he liked the house so much he could go and live in it himself and relive his happy memories.· Most of her free time was spent in Water Gypsy's main cabin, reliving the memories it held for her.
► moment· He was reliving the harrowing moment when he discovered her unconscious, her neck in a ligature.· She flashed back to her discussion with Ted Wilkinson, reliving every moment in her mind.· And motorway tragedy ... witness relives moments before crash that killed three people.· But I believe that children need to be inducted into the tradition of reliving and rethinking moments of their lives.· And her stomach twisted as she relived deliciously the moments of passion they had so recently shared.
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to remember or imagine something that happened in the past so clearly that you experience the same emotions again: The girls watch the tape, eager to relive their victory against UCLA.