rejuvenize

American

[ri-joo-vuh-nahyz] / rɪˈdʒu vəˌnaɪz /

especially British, rejuvenise

verb (used with object)

rejuvenized, rejuvenizing

to rejuvenate.

Etymology

Origin of rejuvenize

1810–20; re- + Latin juven ( is ) young + -ize

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rejuvenized rejuvenizing

Be that as it will, I made what my dear Yankees—to use the Major's impertinent phrase—call "straight tracks" for that ancient and obsolete town, rejuvenized now by its Signor.

From Erema — My Father's Sin by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)

He was the means, as Hamy states, of saving from a lamentable destruction, by rejuvenizing them, the scientific institutions of ancient France.

From Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work by Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)

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