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Definitions: Revitalize |
RevitalizeVerb1. Restore strength; "This food revitalized the patient". 2. Give new life or vigor to. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: RevitalizeSynonyms: regenerate (v), revitalise (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Revitalize |
| Specialty definitions using "revitalize": Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The Riyadh Construction Company plans to revitalize the downtown area in Riyadh and is moving ahead with the first phase of the plan at a cost of $500 million. (references) | |
Children | Burkina Faso | The Government has demonstrated its commitment to improving the condition of children by continuing efforts, in cooperation with donors, to revitalize primary health care by focusing on care for nursing mothers and infants; vaccination campaigns for measles, meningitis, and other illnesses; and health education. (references) |
Economic History | Bulgaria | The current Labor Minister has attempted to revitalize the Council. (references) |
Jamaica | Sustained efforts were made by the government since the crisis to restructure and revitalize the industry. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | By continuing to revitalize our traditional friendships, and by our missions to Peking and to Moscow, we were able to establish the base for a new and more durable pattern of relationships among the nations of the world. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | The partnership among Federal, State and local governments to revitalize our Nation's communities has been a high priority of my Administration. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | To renew America, we must revitalize our democracy. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Revitalize" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 91.11% of the time. "Revitalize" is used about 45 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 91.11% | 41 | 53,521 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 8.89% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 45 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "revitalize": revitalize the economy. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
american crew revitalize | 5 |
revitalize your hair | 4 |
revitalize plus | 3 |
revitalize | 2 |
economy jamaican revitalize | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "revitalize"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منحه حياة جديدة, نعش (bier, brace, brisk, buck up, casket, coffin, elevate, exhilarate, freshen, freshen up, ginger, hearse, invigorate, pall, pick up, put smb. on his leg, rally, reanimate, reflate, refresh, revive), أحيا (enliven, inspirit, renovate, restore, resurrect, resuscitate, revive), بعثه من جديد. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 复苏 (revitalise, revitalised, revitalising, revitalized, revitalizing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | znovu oživit, posílit (augment, beef up, brace, build up, buttress, corroborate, fortify, invigorate, recruit, reinforce, strengthen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | revivifier, redonner une nouvelle vie, redonner de la vitalité à. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | regenerieren (reclaim, recover, recycle, regenerate, reshape, to recycle, to regenerate, to reshape), neu beleben (reanimate, reinvigorate, to reanimate, to reinvigorate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αναζωογονώ (enliven, give a new lease of life, reanimate, refresh, resuscitate, revitalise, revive, revivify). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | להחיות מחדש. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | újjáéleszt (revive, to resuscitate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ravvivare (animate, brighten, enliven, liven, refresh, revitalise, revive, smarten). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 소생시키십시요 (revitalise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | evitalizeray revitalizar a economia (revitalize the economy). (various references) воскрешать (resurrect, resuscitate), оживлять (animate, brighten, enliven, exhilarate, illumine, jazz up, liven, perk, perk up, quicken, raise from the dead, reanimate, resuscitate, souped, souping, vitalize, vivify). (various references) revitalizovati, oživeti (animate, come to life again, enliven, liven, liven up, recuperate, resuscitate, revive, vivify). (various references) revivificar (revivify), revitalizar, vigorizar (exhilarate, fortify, invigorate), infundir fuerzas a. (various references) återuppliva (resuscitate, revive). (various references) yeniden canlandırmak (reanimate, revive), teşvik etmek (abet, cheer, cheer on, countenance, draw, egg, egg on, embolden, encourage, fillip, Foster, ginger, ginger up, give a fillip to, give countenance to, goad, goad on, incite, induce, inspirit, instigate, keep smb. in countenance, lend countenance to, lend wings to, prod, prompt, put a premium on, put smb. on his mettle, set on, sharpen, spark, spoonfeed, spur, spur smb. on, stimulate, stir up, tickle up, urge), kuvvet vermek, diriltmek (animate, bring to life, resurrect, resuscitate, revive, revivify, vitalize), canlandırmak (accelerate, animate, arouse, brace, bring to life, brisk, brisk up, characterize, drum up, enact, enliven, exhilarate, fortify, freshen, furbish up, galvanize, ginger, ginger up, give a fresh impetus to, hearten, impersonate, innervate, inspire, inspirit, interpret, invigorate, jazz, jazz up, jog, key up, liven, liven up, pep up, perform, personalize, personate, personify, play, play the role of, portray, quicken, rake up, rally, recreate, refresh, regenerate, represent, revive, revivify, rouse, rouse up, smarten, smarten up, spirit, spirit up, stimulate, tone up, touch up, uplift, vitalize, vivify, wake, waken). (various references) воскрешати (resurrect), оживляти (animate, resuscitate, vitalize, vivify). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "revitalize": revitalized, revitalizes. (additional references) | |
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"Revitalize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Previtali, reitalize, revilalize, revitalism, Revitalizer. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "revitalize" (pronounced rēvī"tulī'z) |
| 5 | -t u l ī' z | brutalize, capitalize, catalyze, compartmentalize, crystallize, departmentalize, fertilize, hospitalize, recapitalize, tantalize, underutilize, utilize. |
| 4 | -u l ī' z | actualize, alkalies, analyze, annualize, cannibalize, caramelize, centralize, civilize, collateralize, commercialize, criminalize, decentralize, deinstitutionalize, demobilize, demoralize, denationalize, depersonalize, destabilize, editorialize, equalize, evangelize, federalize, fictionalize, finalize, formalize, fossilize, generalize, globalize, hydrolyze, idolize, industrialize, internalize, internationalize, legalize, liberalize, localize, marginalize, materialize, memorialize, metabolize, mineralize, mobilize, monopolize, moralize, nationalize, naturalize, neutralize, normalize, paralyze, penalize, personalize, professionalize, radicalize, rationalize, regionalize, renationalize, scandalize, serialize, socialize, specialize, stabilize, sterilize, symbolize, tranquilize, trivialize, vandalize, verbalize, visualize. |
| 3 | -l ī' z | butterflies, creolize, fireflies, gadflies, idealize, multiplies, realize, stylize. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: relativize. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-i-l-r-t-v-z" | |
-1 letter: vizierate. | |
-2 letters: laterize, levirate, relative, velarize, vitalize, vizirate. | |
-3 letters: atelier, elative, leavier, realize, trivial, vealier, virelai. | |
-4 letters: elater, eviler, laveer, lazier, leaver, levier, liever, livier, relate, relive, retail, retial, retile, reveal, revile, tailer, teazel, teazle, travel, trivia, varlet, vealer, veiler, velate, verite, virile, vizier. | |
-5 letters: aerie, aiver, alert, alive, alter, arete, ariel, artel, avert, eater. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-i-l-r-t-v-z" | |
+1 letter: relativized, relativizes, revitalized, revitalizes. | |
+4 letters: overcapitalize. | |
+5 letters: overcapitalized, overcapitalizes. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 76 69 74 61 6C 69 7A 65 |
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