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单词 revivify
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Definition of revivify in English:

revivify

verbrevivifies, revivified, revivifying rɪˈvɪvɪfʌɪriˈvɪvəˌfaɪ
[with object]
  • Give new life or vigour to.

    使复活;重振…的活力

    they revivified a wine industry that had all but vanished

    他们使几乎消失的酿酒业重现活力。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This precursor to the modern-day equipment that revivifies countless victims in TV medical dramas was a crude invention, used by the unscrupulous for cheap public entertainment.
    • I'm referring to another outbreak of 1960s sentimentality - the kind that insists the failed culture loosely associated with that era should be revivified as a template for all subsequent politics.
    • The drink of Beam had revivified the old man, and he might be discussing the future of the motel with her.
    • When, after numerous attempts, he finally attained a cathedral post, at Ely in 1953, he was thus able to bring hands-on experience to revivifying a less than vital musical foundation.
    • Most frequently to be seen in press conference post-mortems after the opposition's corpse has been miraculously revivified when it should have been ‘put away’.
    • The great inland waterways that inter-connect this region could also be revivified in conjunction with Bangladesh for inter-modal transport.
    • Leopold is an eminent plant physiologist who discovered the essential metabolic process that allows seemingly inanimate seeds to quicken and spring to life with revivifying moisture.
    • She took those cliches and revivified them, and sometimes made them more than cliche.
    • ‘It's my impression that the language of music has always been revivified and expanded by the theatre,’ he says.
    • As social experiments go - revivifying a materially and psychologically broken nation - there is every reason to be optimistic about this one.
    • He's been in Dunedin revivifying his flagging spirits with the pre-Raphaelite exhibition, but it already seems to have worn off.
    • Enveloped in duende, the nihilism of Levis's poetry negated beliefs and consolations, but it did so to revivify our humanity and refresh the abilities of poetry.
    • I suppose I aim to revivify imagination in my own way.
    • The fluent prose poems of Donna Stonecipher's The Reservoir also try to revivify autobiography: Stonecipher, however, enjoys explaining and elaborating almost as much as Greenfield enjoys leaving bits out.
    • Between them stood Yatpan, revivified and full of vigour, with all his strength.
    • But basically, I want the American literary genius to reshape and revivify the American political genius.
    • By questioning established authority, founding new colleges, and revivifying evangelical zeal, it helped to prepare the revolutionary generation in America.
    • The government's move to create districts exclusively for women contending for parliamentary seats has revivified rows in the political arena.
    • Other areas of the city which have suffered during the demise of Glasgow's heavy industries have been revivified.
    • What makes Queens successful is that its new immigrants have revivified its middle-class neighborhoods and civic institutions with the strong middle-class values and aspirations they brought with them.
    Synonyms
    reinvigorate, re-energize, brace, fortify, strengthen, give new strength to, give a boost to, build up, bolster, prop up, help, renew, regenerate, restore, revive, rejuvenate, reanimate, resuscitate, refresh, reawaken, rekindle, put new life into, breathe new life into, enliven, stimulate, put some spark into, kick-start, uplift

Derivatives

  • revivification

  • noun rɪvɪvɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)nˌriˌvɪvəfəˈkeɪʃ(ə)n
    • Any revivification of active citizenship in Australia and elsewhere depends at least partly on the provision of the actual public infrastructure necessary for its realisation.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Dr Allawi cannot and does not claim credit for the democratic revivification of his country.
      • Maybe the nation really has put Vietnam behind it, despite the current attempts at revivification.
      • Yet the advent of a swimming mishap, a recession, a war, a tsunami or a bout of pancreatitis can sometimes be the stuff of which revivifications are made.
      • And, as with Thomas Nozkowski's deft, eccentric revivifications of modernist composition, Root's paintings are, in regard to their progenitors, simultaneously affectionate and irreverent.

Origin

Late 17th century: from French revivifier or late Latin revivificare (see re-, vivify).

Definition of revivify in US English:

revivify

verbriˈvɪvəˌfaɪrēˈvivəˌfī
[with object]
  • Give new life or vigor to.

    使复活;重振…的活力

    they revivified a wine industry that had all but vanished

    他们使几乎消失的酿酒业重现活力。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • As social experiments go - revivifying a materially and psychologically broken nation - there is every reason to be optimistic about this one.
    • When, after numerous attempts, he finally attained a cathedral post, at Ely in 1953, he was thus able to bring hands-on experience to revivifying a less than vital musical foundation.
    • Other areas of the city which have suffered during the demise of Glasgow's heavy industries have been revivified.
    • But basically, I want the American literary genius to reshape and revivify the American political genius.
    • This precursor to the modern-day equipment that revivifies countless victims in TV medical dramas was a crude invention, used by the unscrupulous for cheap public entertainment.
    • She took those cliches and revivified them, and sometimes made them more than cliche.
    • What makes Queens successful is that its new immigrants have revivified its middle-class neighborhoods and civic institutions with the strong middle-class values and aspirations they brought with them.
    • Leopold is an eminent plant physiologist who discovered the essential metabolic process that allows seemingly inanimate seeds to quicken and spring to life with revivifying moisture.
    • The fluent prose poems of Donna Stonecipher's The Reservoir also try to revivify autobiography: Stonecipher, however, enjoys explaining and elaborating almost as much as Greenfield enjoys leaving bits out.
    • I'm referring to another outbreak of 1960s sentimentality - the kind that insists the failed culture loosely associated with that era should be revivified as a template for all subsequent politics.
    • The drink of Beam had revivified the old man, and he might be discussing the future of the motel with her.
    • Between them stood Yatpan, revivified and full of vigour, with all his strength.
    • Most frequently to be seen in press conference post-mortems after the opposition's corpse has been miraculously revivified when it should have been ‘put away’.
    • He's been in Dunedin revivifying his flagging spirits with the pre-Raphaelite exhibition, but it already seems to have worn off.
    • The great inland waterways that inter-connect this region could also be revivified in conjunction with Bangladesh for inter-modal transport.
    • I suppose I aim to revivify imagination in my own way.
    • Enveloped in duende, the nihilism of Levis's poetry negated beliefs and consolations, but it did so to revivify our humanity and refresh the abilities of poetry.
    • By questioning established authority, founding new colleges, and revivifying evangelical zeal, it helped to prepare the revolutionary generation in America.
    • ‘It's my impression that the language of music has always been revivified and expanded by the theatre,’ he says.
    • The government's move to create districts exclusively for women contending for parliamentary seats has revivified rows in the political arena.
    Synonyms
    reinvigorate, re-energize, brace, fortify, strengthen, give new strength to, give a boost to, build up, bolster, prop up, help, renew, regenerate, restore, revive, rejuvenate, reanimate, resuscitate, refresh, reawaken, rekindle, put new life into, breathe new life into, enliven, stimulate, put some spark into, kick-start, uplift

Origin

Late 17th century: from French revivifier or late Latin revivificare (see re-, vivify).

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