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make more striking or animated
his remarks always vivify an otherwise dull story -
give new life or energy to
This treatment repaired my health
This will renovate my spirits
A hot soup will revive me
How To Use vivify In A Sentence
- The exchange continued for a little over a year, until both men became absorbed in other projects, but while it lasted, Mr. Neumeyer says, "we were both sparked into spurts of vivifying and shared creativity. Gorey's Flights of Fancy
- One thing is certain: it has a tendency to enervate both body and mind, and were it not for the revivifying effects produced by a winter residence in the country, where gentlemen take to field sports, and ladies to razeed dresses, sensible shoes, and constitutional walks, the mortality among our "upper ten thousand" would, I believe, be frightful. Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada
- More spending -- a greater flow of money -- Hamilton understood, would "vivify and invigorate the channels of industry, and make them flow with greater activity and copiousness. Paul A. London: The Politics of Discrediting America
- Rueffert found it vivifying just to be around food and to watch people eating. Hans Rueffert, Chef Without Stomach, Recovers From Cancer And Writes Cookbook (VIDEO)
- In the first three of these only (a, b, and c) is there real sterility in the sense of the nondevelopment or imperfect development of the male vivifying element (spermatozoa). Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
- The aim was to strengthen and revivify the Labour Party.
- A scientist-explorer Langdon St. Ives and his valet, Hasbro, pursue their arch-nemesis, the hunchback Dr. Ignacio Narbondo, across Norway, contesting Narbondo's plot to destroy the earth and, later, efforts to revivify Narbondo's apparently frozen corpse. "Steampunk" Anthology, Edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
- Maybe those laboring to regenerate and vivify landscapes and to thicken the human/nature drama are quixotic deer-like souls.
- Jaswant Singh and Jinnah mercifully conspire to vivify the publishing industry. Archive 2009-08-01
- I stripped off and got in the bath, laid back and let the water begin its magic of revivifying me.