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vigor
[ vig-er ]
noun
- active strength or force.
- healthy physical or mental energy or power; vitality.
- energetic activity; energy; intensity:
The economic recovery has given the country a new vigor.
- force of healthy growth in any living matter or organism, as a plant.
- active or effective force, especially legal validity.
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- vigor·less adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Idioms and Phrases
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Example Sentences
Stittsworth sighed and gazed out the window, whereupon he noticed a male goat mounting a female goat with extreme vigor.
She speaks with vigor about her projects, pointing out her favorite pieces in the museum and library.
It was only the 8th minute of the game, and Argentina was flowing with dangerous vigor.
It looked as if Chrome was lying in wait, but aboard the horse Victor Espinoza sensed a diminished vigor.
House Speaker John Boehner has stalled on immigration with great vigor.
She bathed Madame Ratignolle's face with cologne, while Robert plied the fan with unnecessary vigor.
Tim says more by the vigor of his smoking than Perry Thomas could express in a year's oration.
Gunn possessed a purple complexion which attained to full vigor of coloring in the nasal region.
He possessed a mind of great vigor and enterprise, and was characterized by integrity and amiableness.
But the new column infused vigor and hope in the hearts of a garrison that had ceased even to despair.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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