revivify

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revivify - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Revivify \Re*viv"i*fy\, v. t. [Cf. F. r['e]vivifier, L.
     revivificare. See Vivify.]
     To cause to revive.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Some association may revivify it enough to make it
           flash, after a long oblivion, into consciousness. --Sir
                                                    W. Hamilton.
     [1913 Webster]

revivify - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  revivify
      v 1: give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me";
           "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired
           my health" [syn: animate, recreate, reanimate,
           revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify,
           revivify]