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2. reclamation, saving, salvation, rescue, deliverance, redemption, ransom; rehabilitation, restoration, reestablishment, renewal, recruitment, regeneration, rebirth, palingenesis; revival, revivification, revitalization, reanimation, rejuvenation; reformation, improvement, betterment, amelioration, melioration.
3. recuperation, convalescence, return to health, Inf. comeback, survival; rally, turn for the better, resurgence, reactivation.
recreant, adj. 1. cowardly, craven, dastardly, base, Archaic, niddering, Archaic, caitiff; pusillanimous, timorous, timid, nervous, fearful, afraid, scared, scary, frightened, afraid of one's shadow, cowering; spineless, weak, uncourageous, unmanly, weak-hearted, fainthearted, lily-livered, white-livered, Sl. chicken, Inf. chickenhearted, Inf. chicken-livered, Inf. yellow, Sl. yellow-bellied, Sl. candy-assed, Inf. pantywaist, sissy.
2. unfaithful, faithless, disloyal, untrue, false, falsehearted; two-faced, Janus-faced, double-tongued, talking out of both sides of one's mouth, hypocritical, heretical; two-timing, cheating, perfidious, betraying, Inf. double-crossing, traitorous, treasonous, treasonable, double-dealing; shifty, crafty, conniving, tricky, dishonest, deceitful, insidious, untrustworthy; apostate, renegade, deserting, defecting; dissident, divergent.
-n. 3. coward, craven, poltroon, dastard, Archaic. caitiff, Archaic, niddering; yellowbelly, mouse, baby, big baby, crybaby, wheyface; Inf. nervous nellie, Sl. chicken, Inf. fraidy-cat, Inf. scaredy-cat; invertebrate, Inf. jellyfish, weakling, Sl. weak sister, namby-pamby, sissy, milksop, milquetoast, mama's boy, mollycoddle, Inf. pantywaist.
4. apostate, renegade, deserter, defector, bolter, turncoat; renouncer, abjurer, repudiator, rejecter, dissenter; heretic, hypocrite, dissembler, dissimulator, deceiver; traitor, betrayer, Inf. double-crosser, Judas or Judas Iscariot, Brutus, Benedict Arnold, informer, Sl. rat; double-dealer, snake in the grass.
re-create, v. create anew, make over, remake, reconstruct, rebuild, remodel, refashion, reform, renovate; duplicate, match, echo, double; reproduce, copy, facsimile.
recreate, v. 1. refresh, restore, renew, rejuvenate, regenerate; invigorate, enliven, exhilarate; entertain, divert, occupy, absorb, interest; amuse, cheer, gladden, gratify, tickle, take or tickle one's fancy, regale.
2. unwind, relax, rest, put one's feet up; play, sport, disport, be entertained, be diverted, escape; romp, gambol, revel, skylark.
re-creation, n. creating anew, remaking, remake, make-over; renovation, reconstruction, reformation, remodeling, rebuilding, refashioning; reproduction, copy, facsimile; duplicate, match, echo, double.
recreation, n. 1. relaxation, rest, easement; refreshment, restoration, renewal, rejuvenation, regeneration; revivification, invigoration, enlivening, exhilaration; dalliance, merrymaking, pleasantry, merriment.
2. pastime, diversion, distraction, entertainment, fun, festivity, aprds-ski; play, game, sport, exercise; antic, lark, romp, gambol, spree, junket; prank, practical joke, escape, revelry, tomfoolery, skylarking.
recrimination, n. countercharge, payment in kind; retaliation, retortion, reprisal, requital, retribution; vengeance, revenge, avengement.
recruit, n. 1. (all in reference to the military) inductee, enlistee, draftee, conscript; cadet, plebe; buck private, private, P.F.C., seaman.
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