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)
- 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
- 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
- To reactivate (a catalyst, reagent etc.).
- 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 present | revivifies |
|---|---|
| present participle | revivifying |
| past participle | revivified |
| past | revivified |
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
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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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