life-giving
life-giving adjective: necessary for life.
Adjective
life-giving (comparative more life-giving, superlative most life-giving)
- Necessary for life.
- We would have died without the unexpected rain that brought life-giving water.
- The FDA has "blood on its hands" in its devastatingly slow release of potentially life-giving drugs to people surviving with AIDS and ARC.1989 April 15, Michael Ambrosino, “Acting Up In The Northwest”, in Gay Community News, page 16
- Creating or engendering life; being a source of life.
Noun
life-giving (uncountable)
- The act of giving life, of creating beings or fostering their survival.
- The systematic, violent overthrow of an ethos of lifegiving by one that placed higher value on the taking of life culminated in the destruction of the Minoan civilization of Crete some four millenia ^([sic]) later.1988 December 11, John Kyper, “The 'Truth' Of Male-Dominated Social Science”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 8
life-giving meaning in Malayalam
life-giving in Malayalam
- energizing, vitalizing, animating
- ജീവദായകം, പ്രാണദ, ജീവൻനല്കുന്ന, ജീവപ്രദമായ, ജീവനീയ, ജീവന
Forms of life-giving
| comparative | more life-giving |
|---|---|
| superlative | most life-giving |
Questions about life-giving
- What does life-giving mean?
- Life-giving means necessary for life.
- What is life-giving in Malayalam?
- Life-giving in Malayalam is ജീവദായകം, പ്രാണദ, ജീവൻനല്കുന്ന. See Life-giving meaning in Malayalam.
- What part of speech is life-giving?
- Life-giving can be an adjective or a noun.
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