verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
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hypervitalizationnoun
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subvitalizationnoun
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vitalizationnoun
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vitalizernoun
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hypervitalizeverb (used with object)
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nonvitalizedadjective
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subvitalizedadjective
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undervitalizedadjective
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unvitalizedadjective
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unvitalizingadjective
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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vitalizesimple
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vitalizessimple
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have vitalizedperfect
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has vitalizedperfect
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am vitalizingprogressive
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are vitalizingprogressive
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is vitalizingprogressive
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have been vitalizingperfect progressive
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has been vitalizingperfect progressive
Past
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vitalizedsimple
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had vitalizedperfect
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was vitalizingprogressive
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were vitalizingprogressive
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had been vitalizingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of vitalize
Explanation
To vitalize is to enliven or excite. There's nothing like a good night's sleep to vitalize a tired child. You can use the verb vitalize to describe what happens when you become energized or perked up: "My tai chi class isn't great exercise, but it does vitalize me." A much more common, and related, word is revitalize. For some reason, vitalize is rarely used, although it's much older, first used in the 1670's, while revitalize didn't come into use until 1858 — almost two hundred years later.
Vocabulary lists containing vitalize
Example Sentences
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When Goodman tackles a new project, her first priority is to “depave the landscape” so water and air can nourish plant roots and vitalize soil microbes.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2024
Smith added, “She takes class apart, she has a clear eye across the traditions that skewer us or vitalize us.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2021
These two elements of the American Revolution, the sovereignty of law and the dream of liberty, vitalize each other.
From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2020
As conductor he is supreme, can vitalize well-worn music as no other of the day.
From Time Magazine Archive
I admit that one cannot vitalize a lot of senseless luxury.
From Atlantic Classics by Various
He weaves together newly discovered nuggets and a polished perspective that vitalizes a twin biography of two people who were closer together and farther apart than most readers might remember.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2018
But Carax vitalizes the film with images that sparkle, smolder, catch fire; he might be offering Michele a last visual banquet before her eyes close forever.
From Time Magazine Archive
The outlines of Author Pratt's story are familiar to every schoolboy, but he vitalizes it with many a contemporary detail.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is an emotive manifestation that stirs one's whole nature and vitalizes every part of the body.
From Vitality Supreme by Bernarr Macfadden
And it would seem that some influence from the objects sweeps across the central field and vitalizes it.
From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Hugo Münsterberg
The value of redeveloping Union Station is not in creating a “modern, vitalized facility” from scratch, as the renderings suggest.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 23, 2022
And before you know it, the whole neighborhood is vitalized.
From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2017
The Financial Times’s Jackie Wullschlager countered, “Although neither definitive nor offering new insights, this show is a very good recapitulation of how Picasso as a god of forms vitalized portraiture after photography.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2016
For many supporters, the thrill of electing him has faded, and the idealism that once vitalized them has given way to disillusionment.
From BusinessWeek ● Jun. 14, 2012
When vitalized tissue craves water, other physical wants are unfelt; when man parches to death all other methods of torture are disregarded.
From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by John Uri Lloyd
“Part of what makes positive secrets vitalizing and energizing, rather than fatiguing and burdensome, is that we feel in control of them,” Slepian said.
From Salon ● Nov. 14, 2023
Witness the vitalizing imaginative energy director Lin-Manuel Miranda brings to “Tick, Tick … Boom!,” an artist-finding-his-footing musical by Jonathan Larson that onstage can come across as rather twee.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2022
“We also hope and intend to find a way to bring this vibrant and vitalizing musical back to the Broadway stage,” they said, “once the current crisis is past.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2021
Japan's State Minister in charge of vitalizing local economies Kozo Yamamoto speaks in Tokyo, Japan, August 3, 2016.
From Reuters ● Oct. 14, 2021
The robot awaited only the vitalizing flash of high-voltage electricity, and Powell paused with his hand on the switch.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
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