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rejuvenating

rejuvenating is the present participle and gerund of rejuvenate.

Meaning of rejuvenate

Verb

rejuvenate (third-person singular simple present rejuvenates, present participle rejuvenating, simple past and past participle rejuvenated)

  1. To render young again.
    • Before coronavirus shuttered the world, a typical month for Connecticut native Zac Mathias was packed with appointments for microneedling (a collagen-stimulating process that involves repeated pin-pricks all over the face), regular resurfacing hydrafacials, rejuvenating laser treatments and the...2021 May 6, Leah Dolan, “Teens are worried about wrinkles. Here’s how Gen Z is helping to fuel a beauty boom”, in CNN
  2. To give new energy or vigour to; to revitalise.
    • The exercise involved in recrafting the past, past encounters and memories actually rejuvenates short-term and present memory — remarkably!2008 May 8, “For Boomers, It’s Time to Go to the (Brain) Gym”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2015

Adjective

rejuvenating (not comparable)

  1. Having a quality which rejuvenates.
    • Before coronavirus shuttered the world, a typical month for Connecticut native Zac Mathias was packed with appointments for microneedling (a collagen-stimulating process that involves repeated pin-pricks all over the face), regular resurfacing hydrafacials, rejuvenating laser treatments and the...2021 May 6, Leah Dolan, “Teens are worried about wrinkles. Here’s how Gen Z is helping to fuel a beauty boom”, in CNN
    • The central concept of Kohn is “demosophy,” a sort of sociology, which is not only observing, but creative and rejuvenating.1937, Antonín Obrdlík, Bruno Zwicker, Survey of Recent Sociological Production in Czechoslovakia in American Sociological Review, volume 2, number 3, American Sociological Association, page 426
    Synonyms:
    rejuvenative

Synonyms of rejuvenating

Words formed from rejuvenating

Questions about rejuvenating

What does rejuvenating mean?
Rejuvenating means having a quality which rejuvenates.
What is rejuvenating the present participle and gerund of?
Rejuvenating is the present participle and gerund of rejuvenate.
What part of speech is rejuvenating?
Rejuvenating is an adjective.

Words near rejuvenating in the dictionary

  1. rejuvenant
  2. rejuvenants
  3. rejuvenate
  4. rejuvenated
  5. rejuvenates
  6. rejuvenating
  7. rejuvenatingly
  8. rejuvenation
  9. rejuvenational
  10. rejuvenations
  11. rejuvenative

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