vivify

英 ['vɪvɪfaɪ] 美['vɪvə,fai]

英英释义实用场景例句

第三人称单数: vivifies;过去式: vivified;过去分词: vivified;现在分词: vivifying;

1. give new life or energy to;: "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health"

2. make more striking or animated;: "his remarks always vivify an otherwise dull story"

vivify (v.): late 14c., from Old French vivifier "come alive; give life to" (12c.), from Late Latin vivificare "make alive, restore to life," from vivificus "enlivening," from Latin vivus "alive" (see vivid) + root of facere "to make" (see factitious). Vivificate in same sense is recorded from early 15c.