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BNC: 37682 COCA: 36857

revivify

1 ENTRIES FOUND:
revivify /riˈvɪvəˌfaɪ/ verb
revivifies; revivified; revivifying
revivify
/riˈvɪvəˌfaɪ/
verb
revivifies; revivified; revivifying
Learner's definition of REVIVIFY
[+ object] formal
: to make (someone or something) strong, healthy, or active again : revive使恢复(力量、健康、活力等)
BNC: 37682 COCA: 36857

revivify

verb

re·​viv·​i·​fy rē-ˈvi-və-ˌfī How to pronounce revivify (audio)
revivified; revivifying; revivifies

transitive verb

: to give new life to : revive
revivification noun

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Worn-out soil may be revivified by careful organic tending. A terrific new recruit can revivify a discouraged football team, and an imaginative and energetic new principal can revivify a failing high school. After World War II, one European country after another was slowly revivified, their economies and cultural life gradually coming back to life. Notice that revivify looks like some other words with very similar meanings, such as revive, revitalize, and reinvigorate.

Example Sentences

looking for ways to revivify the city's economy a new director hoping to revivify the region's oldest repertory company
Recent Examples on the Web Emergencies remind us that people admire selflessness and enjoy demands on their generosity, and that the community as a whole is revivified by such demands. Marilynne Robinson, The New York Review of Books, 27 May 2020 Few films express as well as this one how an immigrant’s sadness at leaving one’s homeland is countered by the prospect of a revivifying renewal. Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 May 2020 Left for dead by some original participants, Facebook’s Libra digital currency project is revivifying. Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2020 But the robustness of the entries as a whole was revivifying. Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2020 Chanin was able to revivify her hometown and create new jobs. Cintra Wilson, The New York Review of Books, 11 Feb. 2020 Over the years, various schemes for revivifying it have been floated, from a church to storage space. William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 25 Sep. 2019 The celebrated British photojournalist’s 1950s images and memorabilia revivify Laika, the first dog to embark on the journey into the cosmos, and her successors, who paved the way for human astronauts during the U.S.-Soviet space race. New York Times, 19 July 2019 Louis barely remembers Alexandre, but, nearing retirement, divorced and in a slump, he is revivified by the attention, and spurred to reconsider his past life. Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2019 See More

Word History

Etymology

French révivifier, from Late Latin revivificare, from Latin re- + Late Latin vivificare to vivify

First Known Use

1675, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of revivify was in 1675
BNC: 37682 COCA: 36857

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