vivify Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb give new life or energy to
    repair; revivify; recreate; reanimate; revive; renovate; animate; quicken.
    • A hot soup will revive me
    • This will renovate my spirits
    • This treatment repaired my health
  2. verb make more striking or animated
    • his remarks always vivify an otherwise dull story

WordNet

Viv"i*fy transitive verb
Etymology
F. vivifier, L. vivificare. See Vivid, -fy; cf. Vivificate.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Vivified ; present participle & verbal noun Vivifying
Definitions
  1. To endue with life; to make to be living; to quicken; to animate.
    Sitting on eggs doth vivify, not nourish. Bacon.

Webster 1913