verb
Other Word Forms
- hypervitalization noun
- hypervitalize verb (used with object)
- nonvitalized adjective
- subvitalization noun
- subvitalized adjective
- undervitalized adjective
- unvitalized adjective
- unvitalizing adjective
- vitalization noun
- vitalizer noun
Etymology
Origin of 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
Efforts have frequently been made to vitalize the 128-year-old American institution whose roots go back to the stagecoach.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead of the gill arrangement of other fishes, which enables them to extract from the water sufficient air to vitalize the blood, it has the lungs of the mammal, and needs to breathe the atmosphere.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael
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