rejuvenate
verb (used with object)
to make young again; restore to youthful vigor, appearance, etc..
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
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“It looks, General, as if you had been rejuvenating this fine old Castle.”
From Up the Forked River Or, Adventures in South America by Edward Sylvester Ellis