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vivify
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb vivify has 2 senses
- vivify(v = verb.body) animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify - give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health" is one way to arouse, brace, energise, energize, perk up, stimulate
- vivify(v = verb.change) Array - make more striking or animated; "his remarks always vivify an otherwise dull story" is one way to alter, change, modify
Derived form noun vivification2
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Derived form noun vivification1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
To endue with life; to make to be living; to quicken; to animate. [1913 Webster]
"Sitting on eggs doth vivify, not nourish."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
vivify, v.tr. (-ies, -ied) enliven, animate, make lively or living.
Derivative
vivification n.
Etymology
F vivifier f. LL vivificare f. L vivus living f. vivere live
THESAURUS
vivify
animate, brace, brace up, breathe life into, bring into being, bring into existence, bring to life, brisk, brisken, buck up, call into being, call into existence, cheer, chirk up, conceive, endow with life, energize, enliven, exhilarate, fortify, fresh up, freshen, freshen up, give birth, give life to, inspirit, invigorate, perk up, pick up, quicken, reanimate, recreate, refresh, refreshen, regale, reinvigorate, renew, revive, revivify, set up, stimulate, vitalizeROGET THESAURUS
vivify
Strength
VB be strong, be stronger, overmatch, render strong, give strength, strengthen, invigorate, brace, nerve, fortify, sustain, harden, case harden, steel, gird, screw up, wind up, set up, gird up one's loins, brace up one's loins, recruit, set on one's legs, vivify, refresh, refect, reinforce, reenforce.Life
VB be alive, live, breathe, respire, subsist, walk the earth, strut and fret one's hour upon the stage, be spared, see the light, be born, come into the world, fetch breath, draw breath, fetch the breath of life, draw the breath of life, quicken, revive, come to life, give birth to, bring to life, put into life, vitalize, vivify, vivificate, reanimate, keep alive, keep body and soul together, keep the wolf from the door, support life, hive nine lives like a cat.
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