youthfulize

present singular third person youthfulizes · participle present youthfulizing · participle past youthfulized · past youthfulized · alternative youthfulise

1. transitiveTo make youthful.

   She massaged her features with vitamin E oil and other compounds of mysterious youthfulizing powers.

   1994, John Nichols, Conjugal Bliss: A Comedy of Marital Arts, New York: Henry Holt & Co, page 109

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   The question is not whether a preacher is pious, prayerful, faithful, sound in faith and a winner of souls […] Is he smart? That’s the question. […] will he […] as occasion may require, let off good round whoppers, thumping stories, and rouse us all up? Then he is the man for us. He will fill the house, sell the pews, youthfulize the congregation, and make us a good speculation.

   1862 December 16, “The Age of Liars”, in Advent Herald, volume 23, number 50, Boston, page 396

   Some plastic surgeons, advertising a customized approach, promise “wrinkles youthfulized.” This, apparently, leaves the patient with young wrinkles.

   1982, Edwin Newman, “Language on the Skids”, in Paul Eschholz et al., editors, Language Awareness, 3rd edition, New York: St. Martin’s Press, page 21