revitalize
Americanverb (used with object)
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revitalizes,
present (3rd person singular)
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revitalized,
past participle, past
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revitalizing
present participle
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to give new life to.
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to give new vitality or vigor to.
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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revitalizesimple
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revitalizessimple
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have revitalizedperfect
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has revitalizedperfect
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am revitalizingprogressive
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are revitalizingprogressive
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is revitalizingprogressive
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have been revitalizingperfect progressive
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has been revitalizingperfect progressive
Past
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revitalizedsimple
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had revitalizedperfect
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was revitalizingprogressive
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were revitalizingprogressive
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had been revitalizingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of revitalize
Explanation
To revitalize is to restore something to life or give it new life. Revitalizing adds newsness and strength. Since vital things are alive, strong, and flourishing, when something gets revitalized, it is returned to health or life. A good night's sleep will revitalize you — so will eating a healthy meal. If a rundown building is purchased and then spiffed up, it's being revitalized. A new paint job could revitalize a room. A sick person is revitalized by medicine. In all cases, when something is revitalized, it has been restored to a better state.
Vocabulary lists containing revitalize
Essential Academic Vocabulary for High School Students, List 4
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President Trump's Second State of the Union Address (2019)
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Vocabulary from the Second Presidential Debate: October 9, 2016
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A thriving new music venue in the heart of the Arts District “would revitalize business and foot traffic and people going out,” he added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
The church said the acquisitions “were undertaken as part of a long-term effort to revitalize downtown Clearwater.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Local governments offered generous tax breaks and other incentives to help revitalize office districts and other downtrodden neighborhoods with these converted apartment towers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
For Angelenos who frequented the Ace Hotel, a maverick venue that helped revitalize downtown L.A. for a decade beginning in 2014, walking through Stile will feel both familiar and new.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
‘We are going to revitalize, as it were, your business.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
Reviewing the musical before it transferred to Broadway, our critic praised it as “an exuberant parade of song, dance, preening and posing that revitalizes Mr. Lloyd Webber’s enduring score with wit, invention and roof-rattling energy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
Recently, the scientific community published an interesting study that revitalizes carbonates, offering them a fresh perspective.
From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024
A humiliating experience, but it also opens a fresh path to an act that revitalizes her career.
From Salon ● Dec. 10, 2022
“Playing with full commitment gives back: It revitalizes me.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2022
At the end of a second act that begins to sag, she revitalizes the story in a scene that should be in her career highlights reel.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 18, 2022
Its revitalized city center features the Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, which boasts 158 acres of indoor and outdoor botanic gardens, nature trails and a massive sculpture collection.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
Another customer described how his visits to the store, nestled between a gas station and the local driving test center, has revitalized his relationship with his girlfriend.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Four years later, St. Louis revitalized the Canadiens, leading them to a 1-0 lead in the Eastern Conference Finals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Turner created the cable stations TBS and Turner Classic Movies; he owned the Atlanta Braves baseball team, the Atlanta Hawks basketball team, and revitalized professional wrestling with World Championship Wrestling.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
The water revitalized me, breaking the time spell, and I lunged forward.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
Gilbert has already spent $6 billion and received hundreds of millions of dollars in public financing to buy and redevelop properties in Detroit’s downtown, work that many credit with revitalizing the city’s core.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
The first step in revitalizing the Angels comes Saturday, in the draft.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
The U.S. is revitalizing sterile fly production, with a new facility in Mexico and another under construction in South Texas, to eliminate the pest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
With his films “Once” and “Begin Again,” Irish filmmaker John Carney went some way toward revitalizing the movie musical, giving that classic grace and romance a contemporary spin.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
Outside, the air felt cool and revitalizing after the mugginess of Little Comic Con.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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