vitalize
verb (used with object)
to give life to; make vital.
has vitalized
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present perfectof vitalize (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The light from that meeting, springing from a vital source, has vitalized every point it has touched.
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Ida Husted Harper
The sculpture has vitalized the whole marvelous Exposition.
From Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts by Juliet Helena Lumbard James
But this I may say—though the glad light of hope and ambitious confidence, which has vitalized my mind, should be extinguished forever, I will not in life act a mean, ungenerous, or useless part.
From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I by Margaret Fuller
"Among the great personages of the past it would be difficult to name one who in the same degree has vitalized and dominated the collective energies of his countrymen."
From Presbyterian Worship Its Spirit, Method and History by Robert Johnston
What historian ever so vitalized Louis the Fourteenth as Dumas has vitalized him?
From A Rebellious Heroine by John Kendrick Bangs
