revivify

[ri-viv-uh-fahy]

verb (used with object)

revivified, revivifying 

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

revivify

/ rɪˈvɪvɪˌfaɪ /

verb

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

Other Word Forms

• revivification noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of revivify¹

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

Example Sentences

In the process, she revivifies the domestic-drama novel, escaping its cliches and intensifying its mood.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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