revigorate

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verb

To give new vigour to.

OriginLatin re- →
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Meanings

verbrevigorate (third-person singular simple present revigorates, present participle revigorating, simple past and past participle revigorated)

present singular third person revigorates · participle present revigorating · participle past revigorated · past revigorated

  1. obsoleteTo give new vigour to.
adjectiverevigorate (comparative more revigorate, superlative most revigorate)

comparative more revigorate · superlative most revigorate

  1. obsoleteHaving new vigour or strength; reinvigorated.

    The fire which seem'd extinct / Hath risen revigorate: a living spark / From Auria's ashes, by a woman's hand / Preserved and quicken'd, kindles far and wide / The beacon-flame o'er all the Asturian hills.

    1814, Robert Southey, “Canto VII”, in Roderick the Last of the Goths, London: […] [F]or Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], by James Ballantyne and Co. […], →OCLC, page 95

Origin

  1. Latinre-
  2. Englishrevigorate

From Latin re- + vigoratus.

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APA

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Chicago

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