Other forms: regenerated, regenerating, regenerates
To regenerate is to grow back or renew itself. Tissue regenerates, regenerate the district, regenerating forest.
Some animals do it spectacularly — a salamander regrows whole limbs, a starfish an arm — and humans manage skin, bone and liver and very little else. In planning, to regenerate an area means to rebuild and revive it, and whether that helps the people already there is the standing argument. Note that the Latin means to make again.
1verbregenerateTo grow back or renew itself.
“The forest took decades to regenerate after the great fire.”
2verbrebuildTo rebuild and revive an area.
“The council plans to regenerate the old industrial area with parks and housing.”
regenerate is a renewing.
Latin regenerare is re plus generare, to produce, from genus. Generate, genus and gene come from the same producing.
Proto-Indo-European
*ǵenh₁-
Latin
regenerātus
English, today
regenerate
From Latin regenerātus, perfect passive participle of regenerō, from re- + generō, from genus, generis + -ō, equivalent to re + generate.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA