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life style |
life support |
life tenant |
life vest |
life-and-death |
life-giving
| life-of-man
| life-or-death
| life-preserver
| life-saving
| life-size
life-giving
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective life-giving has 1 sense
- life-giving(s = adj.all) vitalizing - giving or having the power to give life and spirit; "returning the life-giving humus to the land"; "life-giving love and praise"; "the vitalizing rays of the warming sun"
CIDE DICTIONARY
life-giving, a.
Giving life or spirit; having power to give life; inspiriting; invigorating; as, life-giving love and praise. [1913 Webster]
"returning the life-giving humus to the land."
[WordNet 1.5]
ROGET THESAURUS
life-giving
Productiveness
N productiveness, fecundity, fertility, luxuriance, uberty, pregnancy, pullulation, fructification, multiplication, propagation, procreation, superfetation, milch cow, rabbit, hydra, warren, seed plot, land flowing with milk and honey, second crop, aftermath, aftercrop, aftergrowth, arrish, eddish, rowen, protoplasm, fertilization, productive, prolific, teeming, teemful, fertile, fruitful, frugiferous, fruit-bearing, fecund, luxuriant, pregnant, uberous, procreant, procreative, generative, life-giving, spermatic, multiparous, omnific, propagable, parturient, profitable.
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