revivify

[ ri-viv-uh-fahy ]

verb (used with object)

, re·viv·i·fied, re·viv·i·fy·ing.

1. to restore to life; give new life to; revive; reanimate.

revivify

/ rɪˈvɪvɪˌfaɪ /

verb

1. tr to give new life or spirit to; revive

Derived Forms

• reˌvivifiˈcation, noun

Other Words From

• re·viv·i·fi·ca·tion [ri-viv-, uh, -fi-, key, -sh, uh, n], noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of revivify¹

1665–75; < French révivifier < Late Latin revīvificāre. See re-, vivify

Example Sentences

If she loses, it’s not hard to imagine Newsom running as one of many candidates in a crowded field taking on President Trump and pledging to rebuild and revivify a devastated Democratic Party.

From Los Angeles Times

BIRTH/REBIRTH In the summer’s second spin on “Frankenstein” — see “The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster,” above — Marin Ireland plays a pathologist who aims to revivify a dead child.

From New York Times

Old family stories are hard to revivify, even when they’re good family stories.

From New York Times

It’s a wishful advertisement for a revivified nation, one swept clean of conflict and damage, a view sustained in the work of his students.

From New York Times

But Jerzy Skolimowski’s formally radical, emotionally wrenching drama about the travails of a donkey is by far this category’s — and perhaps the year’s — most cinematically revivifying achievement.

From Los Angeles Times