reinvigorate

present singular third person reinvigorates · participle present reinvigorating · participle past reinvigorated · past reinvigorated

1. transitiveTo give new life, energy or strength to someone or something; to revitalize.

   Mr. Putin has reinvigorated an alliance that spent years confused about its purpose once it lost the adversary it was formed to contain, the Soviet Union. Now, containment is back.

   2022 February 18, David E. Sanger, “The United States’ Message to Russia: Prove Us Wrong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

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   The attraction that it exerts on the millions that stroll through its maze of information might be used to reinvigorate our cities. Cyberflaneurs have become captivated with the Internet's ready supply of huge amounts of information...

   1997, Nan Ellin, Architecture of fear, page 292

   Dynamic typography reinvigorates the storytelling genre by anthropomorphizing fonts, defibrillating calligraphy, creating rhythmic, ambient moodscapes without sacrificing speed or lushness.

   1999, Artbyte, volume 2

   And it's probably not a coincidence that the time they evoke was also the beginning of the heyday of Asian commercial cinema, when directors like Tsui Hark and John Woo were reinvigorating moribund movie genres with wild kineticism and an almost insolent indifference to the niceties of narrative logic.

   2008 August 24, Terrence Rafferty, “Images With impact, and with a debt to the late 1980s”, in The New York Times