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
Indeed, the great structure�built with Russian aid and designed to harness the Nile and vitalize the stagnant Egyptian economy�has irrevocably changed the environment of the Nile River Valley and the lives of its inhabitants.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even meetings like the present one have a significance and value only as they inaugurate and vitalize Conservation movements more important and extensive than any Government can ever hope to bring about by direct means.
From Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 by United States. National Conservation Congress
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