revivify
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ɹiːˈvɪvɪfʌɪ/
revivify (revivifies, present participle revivifying; past and past participle revivified)
- (transitive) To reanimate, bring back to life.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 26
- His pure tight skin was an excellent fit; and closely wrapped up in it, and embalmed with inner health and strength, like a revivified Egyptian, this Starbuck seemed prepared to endure for long ages to come, and to endure always, as now; [...]
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 26
- (transitive) To reinvigorate or revitalize.
- 2002, Colin Jones (historian), The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 256:
- Despite the patrician allure of much that Choiseul attempted, a renovating, technocratic spirit was abroad during his tenure of office which sought to rationalize and revivify government service [...].
- 2002, Colin Jones (historian), The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 256:
- (chemistry, transitive, now rare) To reactivate (a catalyst, reagent etc.).
- (chemistry, intransitive, now rare) To become effective again as a reagent etc.
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