revivify

Verb
Synonyms: animaterecreatereanimatereviverenovaterepairquickenvivify

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Verb (1)revivified

  1. give new life or energy to“A hot soup will revive me”“This will renovate my spirits”“This treatment repaired my health”Synonyms: animaterecreatereanimatereviverenovaterepairquickenvivifyMore general stimulate, arouseSimilar come to, revive

Related words animation noun

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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Re·viv′i·fy transitive verb

Origin: Cf. F. révivifier, L. revivificare. See Vivify.

To cause to revive.

Some association may revivify it enough to make it flash, after a long oblivion, into consciousness.— Sir William Hamilton

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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