REVITALIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does revitalize mean? 

• REVITALIZE (verb)
  The verb REVITALIZE has 2 senses:

1. restore strength

2. give new life or vigor to

  Familiarity information: REVITALIZE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REVITALIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they revitalize    ... he / she / it revitalizes   
Past simple: revitalized   
Past participle: revitalized   
-ing form: revitalizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Restore strength

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

regenerate; revitalize

Context example:

This food revitalized the patient

Hypernyms (to "revitalize" is one way to...):

ameliorate; amend; better; improve; meliorate (to make better)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "revitalize"):

rejuvenate (make younger or more youthful)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Give new life or vigor to

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

revitalise; revitalize

Hypernyms (to "revitalize" is one way to...):

regenerate; renew (reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

The good news will revitalize her

Derivation:

revitalization (bringing again into activity and prominence)