VIVIFY

animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify

(verb) give new life or energy to; “A hot soup will revive me”; “This will renovate my spirits”; “This treatment repaired my health”

vivify

(verb) make more striking or animated; “his remarks always vivify an otherwise dull story”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

vivify (third-person singular simple present vivifies, present participle vivifying, simple past and past participle vivified)

(transitive) To bring to life; to enliven.

(transitive) To impart vitality.

Source: Wiktionary


Viv"i*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vivified; p. pr. & vb. n. Vivifying.] Etym: [F. vivifier, L. vivificare. See Vivid, -fy; cf. Vivificate.]

Definition: To endue with life; to make to be living; to quicken; to animate. Sitting on eggs doth vivify, not nourish. Bacon.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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