Meaning & use
recycle
To process used materials so they can be made into new products instead of being thrown away.
See it in a sentence
Our neighborhood requires residents to recycle glass, paper, and plastic separately each week.
The factory recycles scrap metal left over from manufacturing car parts.
A note on using this word
Recycle can also mean to reuse an idea or material in a new context, as in 'recycle old jokes.'
Words with a similar meaning
reusereprocess
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Words with an opposite meaning
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