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vivify

Syllables: viv·ify/ˈvɪvɪfaɪ/

vivify verb: to bring to life; to enliven.

Verb

vivify (third-person singular simple present vivifies, present participle vivifying, simple past and past participle vivified)

  1. (transitive) To bring to life; to enliven.
    • She seemed molded from fire and air, and vivified at some Voltaic pile of August thunder-clouds heaped against the sunset.1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities
    • Persephone, the life force which vivifies all in the spring time, producing the manifold harvests of earth, descends with Plouton to the under world in autumn.1893 April 30, “Society”, in Sioux City Journal, number 7349, Sioux City, Ia.: Perkins Bros. Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, part 2, page 9, column 6
  2. (transitive) To impart vitality to.

vivify meaning in Urdu and Kannada

vivify in Urdu

جان ڈالنا, واضح کرنا

vivify in Kannada

ಉಸಿರುತುಂಬು, ತೆಪ್ಪರು, ಎದ್ದು ಕಾಣುವಂತೆ ಮಾಡು

Forms of vivify

third-person singular presentvivifies
present participlevivifying
past participlevivified
pastvivified

Origin of vivify

Borrowed from Old French vivifier, from Late Latin vivificō.

Words formed from vivify

Questions about vivify

What does vivify mean?
Vivify means to bring to life; to enliven.
What is vivify in Urdu?
Vivify in Urdu is جان ڈالنا, واضح کرنا. See Vivify meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is vivify?
Vivify is a verb.
How do you pronounce vivify?
Vivify is pronounced /ˈvɪvɪfaɪ/.
What is the past tense of vivify?
The past tense of vivify is vivified.

Words near vivify in the dictionary

  1. vivified
  2. vivifier
  3. vivifiers
  4. vivifies
  5. vivifieth
  6. vivify
  7. vivifying
  8. vivipara
  9. viviparas
  10. viviparid
  11. viviparids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vivify (page history and authors); vivify (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vivify (Kannada 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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