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revivify

UK/ɹiːˈvɪvɪfʌɪ/

revivify verb: to reanimate, bring back to life.

Verb

revivify (third-person singular simple present revivifies, present participle revivifying, simple past and past participle revivified)

  1. (transitive) To reanimate, bring back to life.
    • 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 November 14, Herman Melville, “Knights and Squires”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 125
    • In cautiously revivifying dead queens—and Time's appearance suggests that this recuperation is dependent on the hiatus—the play opens up a space, if an uncertain space, within which to begin a critique of current gender politics.1994, M. Lindsey Kaplan, Katherine Eggert, ““Good queen, my lord, good queen” - Sexual Slander and the Trials of Female Authority in “The Winter's Tale””, in Renaissance Drama, volume 25, →DOI, page...
    Synonyms:
    revive
  2. (transitive) To reinvigorate or revitalize.
    • Near-synonym: rejuvenate
    • 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, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 256
    Synonyms:
    revive, rejuvenate
  3. (archaic, transitive) To reactivate (a catalyst, reagent etc.).
  4. (archaic, intransitive) To become effective again as a reagent etc.

revivify meaning in Urdu

revivify in Urdu

دوبارہ جان ڈالنا

Synonyms of revivify

Forms of revivify

third-person singular presentrevivifies
present participlerevivifying
past participlerevivified
pastrevivified

Origin of revivify

Partly from French revivifier and partly from Latin revīvificō, corresponding to re- + vivify.

Words formed from revivify

Questions about revivify

What does revivify mean?
Revivify means to reanimate, bring back to life.
What is revivify in Urdu?
Revivify in Urdu is دوبارہ جان ڈالنا. See Revivify meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is revivify?
Revivify is a verb.
How do you pronounce revivify?
Revivify is pronounced /ɹiːˈvɪvɪfʌɪ/ (UK).
What is the past tense of revivify?
The past tense of revivify is revivified.

Words near revivify in the dictionary

  1. revivifications
  2. revivified
  3. revivifier
  4. revivifiers
  5. revivifies
  6. revivify
  7. revivifying
  8. reviving
  9. revivingly
  10. revivings
  11. reviviscence

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Adapted from Wiktionary: revivify (page history and authors); revivify (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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