revivify

verb

re·​viv·​i·​fy rē-ˈvi-və-ˌfī 

revivified; revivifying; revivifies

transitive verb

: to give new life to : revive

revivification

rē-ˌvi-və-fə-ˈkā-shən 

noun

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Worn-out soil may be revivified by careful organic tending. A terrific new recruit can revivify a discouraged football team, and an imaginative and energetic new principal can revivify a failing high school. After World War II, one European country after another was slowly revivified, their economies and cultural life gradually coming back to life. Notice that revivify looks like some other words with very similar meanings, such as revive, revitalize, and reinvigorate.

Synonyms

• freshen
• recharge
• recreate
• refresh
• refreshen
• regenerate
• rejuvenate
• renew
• repair
• restore
• resuscitate
• revitalize
• revive

Examples of revivify in a Sentence

looking for ways to revivify the city's economy

a new director hoping to revivify the region's oldest repertory company

Recent Examples on the Web

Lily is not a ghost but a dead body, temporarily revivified and subject to decay. —Maggie Doherty, The New Republic, 16 June 2023

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. —Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2023

What would invigorate and revivify you? —Jodie Cook, Forbes, 30 June 2022

For example, his first book, American Agriculture and the Problem of Monopoly (2000), argues for a limited revival of antitrust law—rather than labor organizing or changes in federal farm policy more generally—to revivify Midwestern farming. —Phil Christman, The New Republic, 22 Feb. 2023

Word History

Etymology

French révivifier, from Late Latin revivificare, from Latin re- + Late Latin vivificare to vivify

First Known Use

1675, in the meaning defined above