1. 
[syn: animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Revivify \Re*viv"i*fy\, v. t. [Cf. F. r['e]vivifier, L.
   revivificare. See Vivify.]
   To cause to revive.
   [1913 Webster]
         Some association may revivify it enough to make it
         flash, after a long oblivion, into consciousness. --Sir
                                                  W. Hamilton.
   [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
revivify
    v 1: give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me";
         "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired
         my health" [syn: animate, recreate, reanimate,
         revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify,
         revivify]